Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence in the Confederate States of America
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- ISBN 9781570034503
- Weight: 199g
- Dimensions: 138 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2001
- Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Jubal Anderson Early (1816-1894) ranked among the most important generals who fought with Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. A brigade and corps commander, he played principal roles at the battles of First Manassas, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and most of the other engagements in the Eastern Theater during the first three years of the Civil War. In 1864 Early commanded an army in the Shenandoah Valley, winning several victories and menacing Washington before suffering ignominious defeat in a series of battles against Phillip H. Sheridan's Union forces. Originally released in 1866, Early's is the first personal account published by a major Civil War figure on either side. A creator of the Lost Cause myth that exalted Lee and his Virginia army above those of other states, Early anticipated arguments that later Lost Cause writers would make regarding Lee's and Grant's generalships, the reasons for the Confederate defeat, and the conduct of Union forces in Southern states. Early's memoir helped shape the ways in which white southerners wrote about and understood the Confederacy. In a new introduction to this edition, Gary W. Gallagher explicates Early's military career and examines the general's postwar career as a Confederate apologist.
GARY W. GALLAGHER is John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He has published widely on the Civil War, including The Confederate War and Lee and His Army in Confederate History. Gallagher lives in Charlottesville. ROBERT K. KRICK lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he is responsible for preservation of the sites of four major Civil War battlefields. He is the author of a dozen books, including Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain and Lee's Colonels.
