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  Jubal Anderson Early - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Early was a Whig and strongly opposed secession at the April, 1860, Virginia convention for that purpose.
Early was able to delay the Union forces and pin down Sedgwick while Lee and Jackson attacked the remainder of the Union forces to the west.
In a brilliant surprise attack, Early routed two thirds of the Union army at the Battle of Cedar Creek on October 19, 1864, but his troops were hungry and exhausted and fell out of their ranks to pillage the Union camp; Sheridan managed to rally his troops and defeat Early decisively.
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 JUBAL ANDERSON EARLY, CSA
Jubal Anderson Early was born on November 3, 1816, in Franklin County, Virginia.
Early fought under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in the Army of Northern Virginia, and was shot in the shoulder at Williamsburg.
Nevertheless, Early's work in the Gettysburg Campaign kept him high in General Lee's estimation, and Early was appointed lieutenant general as of may 31, 1864.
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 Jubal Anderson Early Online Research :: Information about Jubal Anderson Early   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jubal Anderson Early (November 3, 1816 – March 2, 1894) was a Lawyer and Confederate States of America general in the American Civil War.
Early was a United States Whig Party and strongly opposed Secession at the April, 1860, Virginia convention for that purpose.
Early was able to delay the Union Army forces and pin down Sedgwick while Lee and Jackson attacked the remainder of the Union forces to the west.
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 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Early, Jubal Anderson @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Early voted against secession in the Virginia convention (Apr., 1861), but when war broke out he became a colonel of Virginia troops.
Early drove Hunter westward and then marched down the Shenandoah valley, crossed the Potomac, and moved on Washington.
Early returned and surprised Sheridan's army at Cedar Creek (Oct. 19) but was finally defeated.
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 Jubal Anderson Early 1816 - 1894
Jubal Anderson Early was the son of Colonel Joab Early who was the son of Jubal and Sarah Early.
Early then started west in disguise to reach Kirby Smith, but when General Smith surrendered, he went to Mexico and then to Canada.
General Early's flag was lost March 2, 1865, at the Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia.
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 Encyclopedia: Jubal Anderson Early
As Early withdrew, he said to one of his officers, "Major, we haven't taken Washington, but we scared Abe Lincoln like hell." Eastern Theater operations in 1864 The Valley Campaigns of 1864 were American Civil War operations and battles that took place in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia from May to October, 1864.
He wrote to Early of the difficulty of this decision: Philip Sheridan Philip Henry Sheridan (March 6, 1831 – August 5, 1888), a military man and one of the great generals in the American Civil War.
The Southern Historical Society was an organization founded by Jubal Early, and was meant to preserve the Southern point of view, that people had during the Civil War.
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 Jubal Early
As a reprisal for certain events in Maryland, Early decided to teach the North a lesson with a raid on Chambersburg which was burned, although some Confederate cavalry refused to take part.
Early never campaigned in the Valley again and Lee directed his forces to come back to Petersburg (under Gordon!).
Early was a broken man. His campaign had nevertheless drawn 50,000 men from Grant and had, arguably, extended the war by about 6 months.
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 TheHistoryNet Discussion Forums: Jubal Early's 1864 Raid: Was it the turning point of the Civil War?
Notable too, Early's men had stopped their advance and were now given over to disorder and a looting of the countryside.
Jubal Early's raid into federal territiory did not significantly change the course of the war nor did it significantly effect the political landscape.
All in all, Early and his troops were lucky not to have been cut off from their eventual escape back into Virginia.
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 General Jubal A. Early
Early was a successful attorney; in one famous case in Mississippi in 1852 the local newspaper there reported, "So clear were his deductions from the law; the adaptation, fitness and cogency with which he applied them; his lofty and Virginia bearing to the Court" that he won the case over the top lawyers in Mississippi.
From there Early proceeded down the Valley to the very gates of Washington where he "scared the hell out of Lincoln." With an army of only 14,000 at its peak, and even that subsequently riddled by attrition and suffering a lack of supplies, Early tied up an army of 40 to 60,000.
The old soldier Jubal Early died in Lynchburg in 1894 and was buried on his old battleground there; he had become a well-known Southern fold hero.
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 Jubal Anderson Early   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Early was a heavy drinker with an abrasive tongue and an irascible personaliy, but his men were quite fond of their colorful commander and called him "Old Jube" or "Old Jubilee."
Early volunteered his services at the outbreak of hostilities and served with distinction as a brigade commander at the 1st Battle of Bull run.
Lee appreciated Early's aggressiveness and competence as general, gave him temporary command of a corps on several occasions, and sent him to command the Shenandoah Valley forces in the winter of 1863-64.
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 Jubal A. Early
Early practiced law in Virginia, became active in politics and was elected to the state legislature.
Early was a vocal opponent of secession in the Virginia Convention in 1861, but once war broke out he accepted appointment as a colonel in the Confederate Army.
In 1864 Early was appointed by Lee to head an army in the Shenandoah Valley, which was intended to divert Union attention from Confederate positions in Richmond and Petersburg.
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 Jubal Early's Report of the Gettysburg Campaign
This is Jubal Early's official report of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Early next morning, the 14th, I ordered Gordon and Hays, respectively, to advance a regiment across the creek and get possession of Bowers Hill, then occupied only by the enemy's skirmishers, as his artillery had been withdrawn during the night.
Robert D. Early, a volunteer aide - I was indebted for the active zeal, energy, and courage with which they performed their duties.
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 Jubal Anderson Early. "Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between the States"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In the spring of the year 1841, I was elected by a small majority, as one of the delegates from the County of Franklin, to the Virginia Legislature, and served in the session of 1841 and 1842, being the youngest member of the body.
        Early in July General Beauregard summoned all his brigade commanders to a conference at Fairfax Station, and there disclosed to them, in confidence, his plan of operations in the event of an advance by the enemy, for which he had learned active preparations were being made.
Early in the morning a Virginia company under Captain Gibson, unattached, had been permitted, at the request of the Captain, to join Kemper's regiment and remained with it throughout the day.
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 Jubal Early Event, 2004
In July, while the main armies in the east were locked in confrontation around Richmond, Jubal Early led a Confederate army in a raid on Washington DC, from the west.
General Early and the main body of his army arrived the next day, marching through most of the day.
Early divided his force at Rockville, taking his main force down Veirs Mill Road and the subsequent attack on Fort Stevens in Silver Spring.
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 Jubal Anderson Early - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jubal Anderson Early (November 3, 1816 – March 2, 1894) was a lawyer and Confederate general in the American Civil War.
Early served in the Shenandoah Valley over the winter of 1863 – 1864.
As Early withdrew, he said to one of his officers, "Major, we haven't taken Washington, but we scared Abe Lincoln like hell."
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 General Jubal Anderson Early
General Jubal Anderson Early was born on November 3, 1816 in Franklin County, Virginia.
During the beginning of the Battle of the Wilderness, while temporarily in command of Hill's corps, he defeated the Federal attack on the flank, and while in the same command he defeated Union General Burnside at Spotsylvania Court House.
Early also struck an effective blow at Bethesna Church on his way to Cold Harbor, and after that battle he attacked Grant's right flank twice.
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 Jubal A. Early - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Though Early is not very well known, his contribution to the Confederacy's last efforts at survival were very important.
Jubal Early is also a character in the episode "Objects in Space" from the TV show Firefly, which has repeated references to the American Civil War.
Various websites claim that the name was picked because Jubal is an ancestor of the show's star, Nathan Fillion.
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 Civil War, Day By Day
Early fought in the Mexican War and was mustered out of the army in August of 1848.
Early, however, recognized his duty to his native state and was commissioned a colonel of the 24th Virginia infantry.
Early was promoted to brigadier general on August 28, 1861, and after a good performance at Fredericksburg, to major general on April 23, 1862.
www.mortkunstler.com /civilwar/archive.htm?mn=11&dn=03&y=2003&dc=1103   (219 words)

  
 Jubal Early
Early was an opponent of secession but when Virginia left the Union but on the outbreak of the American Civil War he accepted command of the 24th Virginia Infantry.
Early fought well at Antietam and Fredericksburg and on 23rd April, 1863, was promoted to major general.
Major General Lew Wallace encountered Early by the Monacacy River and although defeated was able to slow his advance to Washington.
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 Jubal Anderson Early, Old Jube   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jubal Early went to college at West Point and graduated in 1837.
Early started aggressively: he sortied up the Valley, crossed into Maryland, was checked at Monocacy Creek, and ran out of steam in front of the Washington defenses.
First, Early had lost the confidence of the citizens; second, Lee couldn’t defend his subordinate against criticism without showing just how weak the Confederate army was.
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 Cedar Creek Part I: A Prelude to Battle
Early intended to make war on Sheridan's forces again, and seeing the destruction of the Southern subsistence in the Valley provoked him to be even more adamant about doing so.
Unfortunately for Early, however, a skirmish between a segment of his force and a detachment of Union infantry ensued as Early was moving into position.
Early was unaware of Sheridan's absence, but he prepared to attack on the Union at, coincidentally, the best possible time.
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 Jubal Early - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jubal Anderson Early - a Confederate General during the American Civil War
Jubal Early - a character on the Firefly television series.
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
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Early, Jubal A. Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early, C.S.A.: Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between the States.
Gallagher, Gary W. “East of Chancellorsville: Jubal A. Early at Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church.” In Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath.
“Jubal A. Early, the Lost Cause, and Civil War History: A Persistent Legacy.” In Lee and his Generals in War and Memory.
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 District of Columbia Civil War Battle Fort Stevens American Civil War
Jubal A. Early's exhausted Confederates reached the outskirts of Washington near Silver Spring.
He decided to send General Jubal A. Early with about 20,000 troops to strike at Washington, which his spies had reported was poorly defended.
On June 12, General Early started his march from behind Petersburg, and by July 9, he was at Frederick, Maryland, where he demanded and received $200,000 to spare the city.
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 FIREFLYFANS.NET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
She probably calculated the trajectory of Jubal's bounce off his ship and with a combination of precognition and raw mathimatical power estimated exactly where she wanted him to be when the ship picked him up and pre-entered the flight plan.
I just think that joss left Jubal's death ambiguous because he was such a great character that, if he wanted to, he could bring him back in the future for a needed role in an as yet unrealized story.
Very early on in the Buffyverse, I learned a valuable lesson--"Don't bother trying to predict, figure out, second guess, criticize, or suggest anything that comes from the mind of Joss Whedon, for you shall usually be wrong, and shall find out the Truth and Purpose in due time." I call this the Truth of Whedoning.
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 Lieutenant General Jubal Early - Lee's Bad Old Man - Confederate General
A West Pointer (1837) from Virginia, Jubal Early participated in the Mexican War as a major of volunteers.
Early directed his division on the North Anna, but was back in command of 2nd Corps in time for Cold Harbor.
Early, himself, was removed from command because of public reaction to the losses.
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 Earl Gregg Swem Library Special Collections
Included are letters, 1884 and 1890, by Early which discuss the battles of Sharpsburg, and 2nd Bull Run, and his opinion of Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs.
There is also a clipping, 1881, and a pamphlet, n.d., on the controversy between Early and William Mahone (1826-1895), and an autograph of Early.
Jubal A. Early in the Valley of Virginia and Maryland.
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 Jubal Early Raid, Local Historian Account
Nearly every regiment was headed by a band of music, which, generally, as they marched through the town, discoursed fine music." Depending on their loyalties, the locals cheered the soldiers or kept out of sight.
Leaving guards at Rockville, Early sent McCausland down the Pike to Fort Reno in Tennallytown (now Tenleytown) while he led a larger group past Sam Vier´s mill and on toward Washington.
By Wednesday morning, July 13, General Early and his generals were back at the Montgomery House in Rockville.
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 Jubal Anderson Early Biography
Always an irascible officer, Jubal A. Early suffered overwhelming defeats in the Shenandoah Valley and went on after the conflict to wage a literary war with a fellow Confederate corps commander.
A West Pointer (1837) from Virginia, Early had served one year in the artillery, and later in the Mexican War as a major of volunteers, before taking up law.
A couple of weeks later this command was sent back to the Valley and Early invaded Maryland, fighting at Monocacy and on the outskirts of Washington.
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