Jubal Anderson Early papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 5000
Subjects: History; Officers; Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862; Gettysburg Campaign, 1863; Correspondence; Lotteries; Campaigns; United States Military Academy; United States. Army; Southern Historical Society; Politics and government; Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1862; Practice of law; Williamsburg, Battle of, Williamsburg, Va., 1862; United States; Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861; Confederate States of America. Army; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Mine Run Campaign, Va., 1863; Family; Confederate States of America; Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia
Description: Correspondence, diaries (1847 February-May and 1865 May-November), speeches, articles, military papers, clippings, scrapbook (1833-1930), printed matter, and maps.  The pre-Civil War papers reflect Early's years as a West Point cadet and his U.S. Army service, his law practice, and his Virginia political activities.  Includes letters (1829-1833) from John J. Cabell to his wife, Henry Ann Cabell.

Civil War material documents Early's participation in battles at Bull Run (1861) and Williamsburg, Va., and the Gettysburg and Shenandoah Valley campaigns and includes his account of the Confederate advance toward Washington, D.C., in July 1864,  Also included are a report on the performance of Isaac Trimble's brigade in the battle of Bull Run (1862), reports by Harry T. Hays and Clement A. Evans on skirmishes in the Mine Run Campaign, a list of units in G.T. Beauregard's I Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia (1862), and a return of troops commanded by Joseph E. Johnston in the spring of 1862.

Postwar material, comprising the bulk of the collection, relates to Early's business affairs, especially the Louisiana lottery, his activities in the Southern Historical Society, and aid extended by Early to Confederate families, including that of Jefferson Davis.  Correspondents include G.T. Beauregard, Raleigh Edward Colston, John W. Daniel, Jefferson Davis, Varina Davis, Daniel Harvey Hill, Stonewall Jackson, Bradley T. Johnson, Joseph E. Johnston, Fitzhugh Lee, Robert E. Lee, Dabney Herndon Maury, John Singleton Mosby, and Earl Van Dorn.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition of selections, 1838-1870, available, no. 4,221.

Microfilm produced from originals in private hands (photostats in the Manuscript Division). Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1934.

Gift, A. S. Perham and Ruth H. Early, 1923.

Other gifts and purchases, 1932-1992.

transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.

U.S. and Confederate Army officer, lawyer, and state legislator of Virginia.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008046.  Item index also available in the Manuscript Reading Room.