A Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence in the Confederate States of America

Originally published in 1866, Jubal Anderson Early (1816-1894) gives his military operations, postwar career, and devotion to the redemption of the south’s reputation from the stain of military defeat in shivering sincerity. Containing elements of both battlefield narrative and apologia for his actions and those of other Virginians, Early’s brief …

Originally published in 1866, Jubal Anderson Early (1816-1894) gives his military operations, postwar career, and devotion to the redemption of the south’s reputation from the stain of military defeat in shivering sincerity. Containing elements of both battlefield narrative and apologia for his actions and those of other Virginians, Early’s brief memoir helped shape the ways in which  Southerners wrote about and understood the Confederacy.