Jubal Anderson Early

Jubal Anderson Early was a soldier and jurist who wreaked havoc as a Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War. He spearheaded the Shenandoah Valley Campaign and marched to the doorstep of Washington, D.C. in 1864, causing panic among Union forces. Following the war, he threw himself into the mythologization and historical reinterpretation of the Confederacy as a radical unreconstructed partisan (leader of the "Lost Cause" movement). He was a central figure who established the historical view that praised Robert E. Lee's achievements while attributing defeat to the overwhelming material superiority of the Union.

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Year	Jubal Anderson Early
1816	Birth of Jubal Anderson Early (Period: November 3, 1816, Location: Rocky Mount, Virginia, United States)
1833	West Point graduation (Jubal Anderson Early, Age: 16 years old, Period: 1833–1837, Location: West Point, New York)
1838	Resignation from the army and practice of law (Jubal Anderson Early, Age: 21 years old, Period: 1838–1861, Location: Franklin County, Virginia)
1846	Mexican-American War (Age: 29 years old, Period: 1846–1848, Location: Northern Mexico, Coahuila, etc.)
1861	American Civil War (Age: 44 years old, Period: 1861–1865, Location: North Carolina, Virginia, etc.) Opposition to secession at the Virginia Secession Convention (Age: 44 years old, Period: February–April 1861, Location: Richmond, Virginia) Joining the Confederacy (Jubal Anderson Early, Age: 44 years old, Period: April–June 1861, Location: Virginia)
1862	Participation in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign (Jubal Anderson Early, Age: 45 years old, Period: May–June 1862, Location: Shenandoah Valley, Virginia) Wound at the Battle of Williamsburg (Age: 45 years old, Period: May 5, 1862, Location: Williamsburg, Virginia)
1863	Battle of Gettysburg (Age: 46 years old, Period: July 1–3, 1863, Location: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
1864	Overland Campaign and corps command (Jubal Anderson Early, Age: 47 years old, Period: May–June 1864, Location: Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, etc., Virginia) 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign (Age: 47 years old, Period: June–October 1864, Location: Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania) Ransom demand of Frederick, Maryland (Age: 47 years old, Period: July 9, 1864, Location: Frederick, Maryland) Confederate invasion of Washington, D.C. (Age: 47 years old, Period: July 11–12, 1864, Location: Northwest Washington, D.C. / vicinity of Fort Stevens) Successive defeats in the Shenandoah Valley and relief of command (Age: 47 years old, Period: September 1864 – March 1865, Location: Shenandoah Valley, Virginia) Battle of Cedar Creek (Age: 47 years old, Period: October 19, 1864, Location: Cedar Creek, Virginia)
1865	Exile after the Civil War (Jubal Anderson Early, Age: 48 years old, Period: 1865–1869, Location: Mexico, Cuba, and Canada) Battle of Waynesboro and relief from army command (Jubal Anderson Early, Age: 48 years old, Period: March 2, 1865, Location: Waynesboro, Virginia)
1870	Formation and spread of the Lost Cause ideology (Age: 53 years old, Period: 1870s–1890s, Location: Lynchburg, Richmond, etc., Virginia)
1873	Establishment of the Southern Historical Society (Age: 56 years old, Period: 1873, Location: Richmond, Virginia)
1894	Death of Jubal Anderson Early (Age: 77 years old, Period: March 2, 1894)

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Key Confederate Officers	Thomas Jonathan Jackson James Longstreet Joseph Egleston Johnston Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard Braxton Bragg John Bell Hood Jubal Anderson Early Nathan Bedford Forrest John Brown Gordon
The Lee family	Robert E. Lee George Washington Custis Lee William Henry Fitzhugh Lee Fitzhugh Lee Robert Edward Lee Jr.
Southern politician	Jefferson Finis Davis Alexander Hamilton Stephens Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter John Cabell Breckinridge Judah Philip Benjamin John Henninger Reagan Wade Hampton III Francis Richard Lubbock Luke Pryor Blackburn Joseph Emerson Brown Alfred Holt Colquitt James Lawson Kemper Zebulon Baird Vance

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