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Jul 3, 2019 · Lieutenant General Jubal Early, CSA. Photograph Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Jubal Anderson Early was born November 3, 1816, in Franklin County, Virginia. The son of Joab and Ruth Early, he was educated locally before receiving an appointment to West Point in 1833. Enrolling, he proved to be an able student.
Professional soldiering seems not to have appealed to Jubal Early; he resigned from the U.S. Army in 1838, just one year after graduation from West Point, and went back only briefly in 1846 to do ...
Jun 12, 2006 · With his once-formidable army reduced to a mere shadow of its former self, Confederate General Jubal Early pulled up at Waynesboro to face his old nemesis, Phil Sheridan, for the last time. The winter of 1864-65 was one of the harshest on record in Virginia’s war-torn Shenandoah Valley.
In the fall of 1864, in the Shenandoah Valley, Maj. Gen. Jubal A. Early had been unsuccessful in slowing Maj. Gen. Phil Sheridan since the recent Union victories at Third Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Tom's Brook. By mid-October, Early was determined to strike Sheridan’s army in their camps along the east bank of Cedar Creek.
Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Early, in command of 14,000 soldiers, marched down the Shenandoah Valley and forded the Potomac at Shepherdstown on July 5, 1864. On July 9 the Confederates defeated a small Union force along the Monocacy River at Frederick, and then advanced toward Washington. At that time, few soldiers manned the defenses ...
Jubal Anderson Early was born in Franklin county, Virginia, on November 3, 1816. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, he served in the Second Seminole War in Florida (1835–42) and the Mexican-American War (1846–48). In the period leading up to the American Civil War, he strongly opposed secession.
Jubal Anderson Early (1816-1894) 1816, Nov. 3 Born, Rocky Mount, Va., the third of ten children born to Joab Early (1791-1870) and Ruth Hairston Early (1794-1832)
