Jubal Early

[White Flint Bill]

Standing in front of the beautiful courthouse in Rocky Mount, Virginia (county seat of Franklin County), beside the Confederate memorial, is a plaque honoring native son Jubal Early. Included in the list of his achievements is "Member of Secession Convention 1861."

What the plaque doesn't mention is that Jubal Early was an adamant opponent of secession, voting against it both before and after hostilities began at Fort Sumter.

This seems especially ironic given that in the post-war years General Early went on to become one of the most vocal and ardent defenders of the justice of the Confederate cause.

 

[Ole Miss]

To say Early was a conundrum would be fairly accurate. You might also throw in irascible as well for additional flavor.
Regards
David

 

[Rebforever]

To say Early was a conundrum would be fairly accurate. You might also throw in irascible as well for additional flavor.
Regards
David

Yep, that Be old reliable Jub.

He is buried in Lynchburg, Va.

 

[Henry Brown]

Yep, that Be old reliable Jub.

so reliable that Lee relieved Early of command.

 

[Rebforever]

so reliable that Lee relieved Early of command.

Not really. There is a story behind this little item. I have read the letter that Lee sent to Early that doesn't sound like Lee at all.
Early and Extra"Billy Smith hated each other especially after Early jerked him off his horse when they were in Hanover in 1863.
"Extra" Billy was the Governor of Virginia at that time and is believed used his office to get General Early through General Lee.

 

[Henry Brown]

Robert Edward Lee did not give him [Early] a new command and acknowledged privately that Early had lost the confidence of Confederates at home and in uniform. Early received a telegram relieving him of command on 30 March 1865. Early's formulation of lost cause tenets probably had as much to to do with excusing an justifying himself as the confederacy .

 

[Jamieva]

Robert Edward Lee did not give him [Early] a new command and acknowledged privately that Early had lost the confidence of Confederates at home and in uniform. Early received a telegram relieving him of command on 30 March 1865. Early's formulation of lost cause tenets probably had as much to to do with excusing an justifying himself as the confederacy .

He basically had no command at that point anyways, what was left of it was defeated at Waynesboro, prompting him being "relieved"

 

[Henry Brown]

early was relieved because he had become un-reliable and un-trusted by his troops.

"Success, however, did not follow Early once he was given an independent command in the Shenandoah Valley in June 1864. His abortive attempt to capture Washington, D.C., in July, followed by the crippling defeat at Cedar Creek in October, transitioned him from trustworthy lieutenant to disgraced pariah. Early ended the war removed from command and professionally ostracized by the Confederate leadership."
[Jubal Early: Robert E. Lee's "Bad Old Man." by Benjamin Franklin Cooling III]