Jubal A. Early biography

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Jubal A. Early was born November 3, 1816 in Franklin County, Virginia. In the period leading up to the Civil War, he strongly opposed secession, but when Virginia decided to withdraw from the Union in 1861, he felt obliged to conform to the action of his state. A confederate general, his defeats during the Shenandoah Valley campaigns of 1864 and1865 led to the final collapse of the South.