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Descriptive Summary
Jubal Early Papers
1863-1890

Source: Robert Mahone, Miss R.H. Early, Paul C. Richards
Number of items: 12
11 items of the Jubal Early Papers were a gift from Robert Mahone and Miss R.H. Early. 1 item purchased from Paul C. Richards, Mass.

Scope and Content Note

Form of material and dates: Papers 1863-1890, and n.d. Correspondence, including both originals and typescripts, copies of accounts of battles, and other items relating to Gen. Jubal A. Early [1816-1894] C.S.A, his activities during the Civil War, and his memoirs of the War. 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.
 

Container List and Descriptions

Jubal A. Early Correspondence
1863-1890

20 Jan[uar]y 1863

J. [sic] [I.] R. Trimble, Brig. Gen., Charlottesville, [Va.], to Major Gen. J. A. Early, Command[in]g Ewell's Division. Gives statement of the operations of the 7th Brigade at Manassas, 14-29 August 1862. 3pp. TCy. [Original located at the Library of Congress].

3 May 1867

[Mrs.] E.C. Wing[?], Cadiz, Trigg County, Ky., to General Early, n.p. Thanks for the book "The Last Year of the War of Independence", sent in memory of her deceased husband; wishes him well in his "...hours of exile" with hopes of his being able to return soon to his native country. 1p. ALS.

31 March 1884

J.A. Early, Lynchburg, [Va.], to General [?]. Concerning information on the Battle of Sharpsburg and the 2nd Battle of Manassas in September 1862. 4pp. ALS.

24 Jan[uar]y [18]88

John Thomas Gibson, "Burnlea," near Charlestown, W. Va., to Gen. Jubal A. Early, n.p. Describing the meeting of [Robert E.] Lee and [Ulysses S.] Grant, 10 April 1865 at Appomattax, Va., 1p. Typescript.

3 Dec[embe]r 1890

J[ubal]A. Early, Lynchburg, Va., to Gen[era]l Horatio G. Wright, n.p. Encloses two copies of his "Memoir of the Last Year of the War"; his "quarters" were recently burned, and many of his papers and books were damaged; additionally, after the fire, he was searching through the ruins, when some of the walls crumbled, nearly killing him; had also sent many of his copies of "Memoirs" to the Southern Historical Society in Richmond; mentions a supposed dispatch from General Longstreet before the Battle of Cedar [Creek], which was false, as well as other stories circulating about that campaign in the [Shenandoah] Valley in connection with [Ulysses S.] Grant's "Personal Memoirs"; quotes Grant "Early had lost more men in killed wounded and captured than Sheridan commanded from the first to the last." 4pp. ALS.

Campaign and Battle Accounts

1864, 1889

Account of the Battle of Cedar Creek, 1864, by Major Samuel J.C. Moore, 1889. 10pp. TMs.

1862

Account of the Campaign of Second Manassas, 1862, by James G. Field. 4pp. TMs.

1863

Account of the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863, by Captain [?] Turner. 2pp. TMs.

n.d.

Diary of Captain W.W. Old, A.D.C., concerning operations of Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early in the Valley of Virginia and Maryland. 7pp. Typescript.

Printed material

22 April 1881

An article in The Baltimore Sun entitled, "The Early-Mahone Fight," detailing the political differences between Jubal A. Early and William Mahone. 1 p. NwsCL.

n.d.

"A correspondence between Generals Early and Mahone in regard to a military memoir of the latter." 19 pp. PM.

Miscellaneous

n.d.

Autograph of J[ubal] A. Early, Lynchburg, Virginia. 1 p. ACS.