EARLY, Jubal Anderson, American sol dier: b. Franklin County, Va., 3 Nov. 1816; d. Lynchburg, Va., 2 March 1894. He was gradu ated from the United States Military Academy in 1837, fought in the Seminole War (1837-38), and having resigned from the service, entered legal practice at Rocky Mount, Franklin Co., Va., in 1838. A member of the Vir ginia house of delegates in 1841-42, he was also attorney to the Commonwealth in 1842-47 and 1848-52. During the Mexican War he was major (1847-48) of volunteers; and at the outbreak of the Civil War, although strongly opposed to secession, he received the appoint ment of colonel in the Confederate forces. Promoted brigadier-general for services as a brigade commander in the first Bull Run, he fought with distinction at Williamsburg, the second Bull Run and Antietam. He was in command of a Confederate division at Gettys burg, and in 1864 of an army for the invasion of Maryland. He crossed the Potomac, de feated Lew Wallace at Monocacy Junction (9 July), threatened an attack on Washington, D. C., but on the arrival of a considerable •Union reinforcement, withdrew to the Shen andoah, possession of which he contested with Sheridan, then commanding the Federal army in the valley. On 19 September he was de
feated at Opequon Creek, with the loss of 3,000 prisoners and five, guns, and on 22 September at Fisher's Hill, where he lost heavily and from which point he was driven to the moun tains. On 19 October he surprised the Federals in the morning at Cedar Creek, but the tide of victory was turned by Sheridan's arrival from .Winchester, and he was completely routed. 'After his defeat by Custer at Waynesborough (March 1865), he was removed from his com mand. He attained lieutenant-general's rank. Subsequent to the war he practised law in Vir ginia, and was, with General Beauregard, a di rector of the. Louisiana lottery. He never took the oath of allegiance. He is ranked high in the list. of Confederate officers, and by some authorities was considered not inferior to "Stonewall Jackson." His chief publication is a 'Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence in the Confederate States of America' (1867). Consult 'Battles and Lead ers of the Civil War,' edited by Johnson and Buell (1887).