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JUBAL ANDERSON EARLY (1816-1894)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 798 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANDERSON See also:EARLY (1816-1894)  , See also:American soldier and lawyer, was See also:born in See also:Franklin See also:county, See also:Virginia, on the 3rd of See also:November 1816, and graduated at the U.S . Military See also:Academy in 1837 . He served in the See also:Seminole See also:War of 1837-38, after which he resigned in See also:order to practise See also:law in Franklin county, Va . He also engaged in See also:state politics, and served in the Mexican War as a See also:major of Virginia See also:volunteers . He was strongly opposed to See also:secession, but thought it his See also:duty to conform to the See also:action of his state . As a See also:colonel in the Confederate See also:army, he rendered conspicuous service at the first See also:battle of See also:Bull Run (q.v.) . Promoted brigadier-See also:general, and subsequently major-general, See also:Early served throughout the Virginian See also:campaigns of 1862-63, and defended the lines of Fredericksburg during the battle of See also:Chancellorsville . At See also:Gettysburg he commanded his See also:division of See also:Ewell's See also:corps . In the See also:campaign of 1864 Early, who had now reached the See also:rank of See also:lieutenant-general, commanded the Confederate forces in the See also:Shenandoah Valley . The action of See also:Lynchburg See also:left him See also:free to move northwards, his opponent being compelled to See also:march away from the Valley . Early promptly utilized his See also:advantage, crossed the See also:Potomac, and defeated, on the Monocacy, all the troops which could be gathered to meet him . He appeared before the lines of See also:Washington, put See also:part of See also:Maryland and See also:Pennsylvania under contribution, and only retired to the Valley when threatened by heavy forces hurriedly sent up to Washington .

He then fought a successful action at See also:

Winchester, reappeared on the Potomac, and sent his See also:cavalry on a See also:raid into Pennsylvania . A greatly See also:superior army was now formed under General See also:Sheridan to oppose Early . In spite of his skill and See also:energy the Confederate See also:leader was defeated in the battles of Winchester and See also:Fisher's See also:Hill . Finally, on the 19th of See also:October, after inflicting at first a severe See also:blow upon the Federal army in its camps on See also:Cedar See also:Creek, he was decisively beaten by Sheridan . (See SHENANDOAH VALLEY CAMPAIGNS.) See also:Waynesboro (March 1865) was his last fight, after which he was relieved from his command . General Early was regarded by many as the ablest soldier, after See also:Lee and See also:Jackson, in the Army of See also:Northern Virginia, and one of the ablest in the whole Confederate army . That he failed to make headway against an army far superior in See also:numbers, and led by a general of the calibre of Sheridan, cannot be held to prove the falsity of this See also:judgment . After the See also:peace he went to See also:Canada, but in 1867 returned to resume the practice of law . For a See also:time he managed in See also:conjunction with General See also:Beauregard the See also:Louisiana lottery . • He died at Lynchburg, Va., on the and of March 1894 . General Early was for a time See also:president of the See also:Southern See also:Historical Society, and wrote, besides various essays and historical papers, A Memoir of the Last See also:Year of the War, &c . (1867) .

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