Jubal Early ALS on Stonewall Jackson & Chancellorsville, Superb Content

Autograph Letter Signed, “JA Early”, 2pp on one sheet, 5.875" x 9", Lynchburg, May 16, 1887. Cream colored, blue lined stationery is blind embossed at top left. Includes original mailing envelope addressed in Early’s hand. Envelope has foxing, soiling, and an opening tear at top. Letter has expected mailing folds with light toning, minor creasing, some scattered ink smudging, else near fine condition.

Early writes to Reverend James P. Smith, in full, “I returned from New Orleans a day or two ago and have to inform you that if you will write to General Francis T. Nichols, Colonel H. B. Kelly, and Captain W. R. Lyman of New Orleans they will take an interest in providing the object of your opination in regard to the Memorial of General [Stonewall] Jackson. General Nichols was commanding the Louisiana brigade in Jackson’s division at Chancellorsville, and was wounded by the artillery which followed the wounding of General Jackson. Colonel Kelly was Colonel of the 8th Louisiana regiment in Hays’ brigade and Captain W. R. Lyman was in the 31st Virginia regiment in the brigade commanded by Elger and subsequently by myself. You can write to each infantry but you had best submit the principal management to General Nichols. I talked to him and he declared his willingness to taken an active interest in the matter.”

Jubal A. Early (1816-1894) was a Virginia lawyer and politician who became a Confederate general during the American Civil War. Trained at the United States Military Academy, Early resigned his U.S. Army commission after the Second Seminole War and his Virginia military commission after the Mexican American War, in both cases to practice law and participate in politics. Accepting a Confederate military commission as the American Civil War began, Early fought in the Eastern Theater throughout the conflict. He commanded a division under Generals Stonewall Jackson and Richard Ewell. Early was later promoted to a corps command and in 1864 led a campaign in the Shenandoah Valley that included a raid on Washington, D.C. After the war Early worked as a lawyer and writer. His books and articles on the Civil War helped shape the “Lost Cause” movement in the South.

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