JUBAL See also:- ANDERSON
- ANDERSON, ADAM (1692—1765)
- ANDERSON, ALEXANDER (c. 1582-1620?)
- ANDERSON, ELIZABETH GARRETT (1836— )
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1662—1728)
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1739-1808)
- ANDERSON, JOHN (1726-1796)
- ANDERSON, MARY (1859– )
- ANDERSON, RICHARD HENRY (1821–1879)
- ANDERSON, ROBERT (1750–1830)
- ANDERSON, SIR EDMUND (1530-1605)
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
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
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
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
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
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
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 (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
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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