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My husband was a marplot just today!Sounds like a term married couples might use. Of course none I know.
My husband was a marplot just today!Sounds like a term married couples might use. Of course none I know.
It was Early's Division that broke the Eleventh Corps on Day 1 at Gettysburg.Good stand at I Manassas
Pulled Hill out the fire at Fredericksburg.
Saved Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain by moving his army in position on Banks left flank .
Fought well a II Manassas.
Held off Sedgewick's corp with 1 division at 2nd Fredericksburg in the Chancellersville battle asked Lee for help and got a division to run Sedgewick back across The Rappahanock River.
Strongly held his line in the Antietam battle in the West Woods.
For a start.
Gee thanks, Eleanor!!!! As if we needed him!
I'm not sure if there really was a Mrs. Early to put up with him. I am sure that putting up with him was a full time job. Early was a fighter, but not so much a winner. He did not quit, but I think his men lost faith in him eventually I would say that Longstreet was no fan of him, neither was Armistead, who broke a mess plate over his head at West Point. I think he made a few enemies to say the least.
Yep. After marching all the way Wrightsville, Pa. from the Valley seems like a pretty good General to me.It was Early's Division that broke the Eleventh Corps on Day 1 at Gettysburg.
He certainly made it close to the city. However a pause on his part or no pause, I don’t believe the city was ever in any real danger. Unfortunitly the same could not be said for Chambersburg.I think @Rebforever was referring to the fact that in July 1864 Early and his men made it before the gates of Washington, just 6 miles away from the White House. There he rested his men, allowing the Union troops to draw reinforcements - otherwise Washington would have been attacked - and who knows what may have been come from that.
No other Confederate General made it so close to Washington.
http://www.historynet.com/jubal-early
The bitter old man certainly influence one Douglas Southall Freeman!Gee I didn't think about how that might sound to my lovely neighbors to the North. Sorry Lorna!
Now for a few more thoughts on Jubal...
Moxey Sorrel wrote of him: “Jubal Early….was one of the ablest soldiers in the army. Intellectually he was perhaps the peer of the best for strategic combinations, but he lacked the ability to handle troops effectively in the field….His irritable disposition and biting tongue made him anything but popular.”
Source: Robert I. Girardi. The Civil War Generals: Comrades, Peers, Rivals-In Their Own Words, p.206.
Early’s hatred for anything to do with the North was demonstrated when he “refused even to donate funds to a monument to Robert E. Lee in Richmond when he learned that the pedestal would be carved from Maine granite.”
Source: Guelzo Allen C. Fateful Lightening: A New History of the Civil War Era and Reconstruction Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York 2012 p.526.
While serving as Governor, James Kemper, found Early’s views so dangerous that he begged him not to attend the unveiling of a monument to Stonewall Jackson in 1875. Kemper wrote to Early, “for the sake of public peace and harmony, I beg, beseech and implore you, for God’s sake stay at home.”
Source: Charles C. Osborne, Jubal: The Life and Times of General Jubal A. Early, CSA, Defender of the Lost Cause p.418.
One of the worst things about Early in my mind is that his ideas live on in the minds of many Americans, who like him have not reconciled with the results of the Civil War and who are still susceptible to his message. Early set the example for them:
“Like an Old Testament prophet, Jubal supported the message by his own extreme example – his “constancy” and intransigence, his unremitting hatred for Grant (even after Jefferson Davis had forgiven the Illinoisan), his refusal to be pardoned or reconstructed or to regard the North, at least in the abstract, as anything but an evil empire.”
Source: Charles C. Osborne, Jubal: The Life and Times of General Jubal A. Early, CSA, Defender of the Lost Cause p.476.
Nobody has mentioned what he said about Ewell. He's all over the place on his assesment of him. He literally put Ewell on the same level as Stonewall., he was more reliable than Hill in corps command, but lost all his efficiency when he lost his leg
Well...which is it??
He certainly made it close to the city. However a pause on his part or no pause, I don’t believe the city was ever in any real danger.
Longstreet had to do something to prop himself up.
He made a remark to a News Paper in 1866 about General Lee that started the attacks later on himself.Not really. He was driven by a sense of honor and duty and sincerely believed that the South would be best served by acknowledging their Northern victors and working to reunify the country. He didn't try to "spin" a version of the war to make the losing side feel better. He was a man about it.
Longstreet had to do something to prop himself up.
Did you tell him that.My husband was a marplot just today!
His memoir says things that are not true. There are volumes here in the archives also.Not really. He was driven by a sense of honor and duty and sincerely believed that the South would be best served by acknowledging their Northern victors and working to reunify the country. He didn't try to "spin" a version of the war to make the losing side feel better. He was a man about it.
He made a remark to a News Paper in 1866 about General Lee that started the attacks later on himself.
I will put that up when I get back to my desk computer.
I'm shocked, shocked I say. I Can't believe a husband could be a marplot.:My husband was a marplot just today!
Believe it, TF, believe it. 'nuff said..I'm shocked, shocked I say. I Can't believe a husband could be a marplot.: