biography
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Early, Jubal (Anderson)
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| lived:
| (1816–94)
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| biography:
| US soldier and lawyer, born in Franklin Co, Virginia, USA. He trained at West Point (1837), and a year later resigned his commission to take up law, though he had fought briefly against the Seminoles and in the Mexican War. He opposed secession, but accepted the role of colonel of the 24th Virginia at the outset of the American Civil War and participated in many major battles. His raid on Washington (Jul 1864) advanced to within three miles of the capital and caused a panic there, but on his retreat through the Shenandoah Valley he was defeated by Sheridan. At the end of the war he fled abroad until 1869, then returned to his law practice and to work with the Louisiana lottery. He served as president of the Southern Historical Society, and his Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative was published in 1912. |
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