Jubal Early
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Jubal Anderson Early (November 3, 1816 – March 2, 1894) was an American lawyer, politician and military officer who served in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War.
Quotes
[edit]- I not only wish them all dead but I wish them all in Hell.
- After the Battle of Fredericksburg, December 15, 1862. Quoted by Randall Bedwell, Brink of Destruction (1999)
- We haven't taken Washington, but we've scared Abe Lincoln like hell!
- Having withdrawn from the outskirts of the Union capital, July 13, 1864. Quoted by Randall Bedwell, Brink of Destruction (1999)
- General Lee had not been conquered in battle, but surrendered because he had no longer an army with which to give battle. What he surrendered was the skeleton, the mere ghost of the Army of Northern Virginia, which had been gradually worn down by the combined agencies of numbers, steam-power, railroads, mechanism, and all the resources of physical science.
- Speech at Washington and Lee University, January 19, 1872. The Campaigns of Gen. Robert E. Lee (Baltimore: John Murphy & Co., 1872), p. 45
