Early Jubal
Confederate Gen. Early War Date DS

[CIVIL WAR.] JUBAL A. EARLY, Manuscript Document Signed, ca. March 1863. 1 p., 7.75" x 9.75". With photograph of Civil War soldier, perhaps Greene. Wrinkles across page; otherwise very good.

With a dark signature, General Jubal A. Early approved this requisition for writing paper, memorandum books, pencils, pens, ink, envelopes, and other office supplies for use by his division’s Commissary Department for the quarter ending June 30, 1863. Major Benjamin H. Greene signed the requisition, certifying that “the above articles are necessary for the public use.”

Jubal A. Early (1816-1894) was born in Virginia and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1837. He resigned from the army in 1838 and gained admission to the bar in Virginia in 1840. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates, but during the Mexican War, Early volunteered and received a commission as major though his regiment arrived too late to see combat. He opposed secession in the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861, but he accepted a commission in the Virginia Militia and then the Confederate Army. After his performance at the First Battle of Bull Run, he was promoted to brigadier general. He continued in the Army of Northern Virginia, rising from brigade to division command and receiving a promotion to major general in January 1863. In July 1864, he led an invasion of the North that reached the outskirts of Washington, D.C., causing panic in the capital. When Union General Philip Sheridan destroyed or captured most of Early’s forces in March 1865, General Robert E. Lee relieved him of command. When the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered weeks later, Early escaped to Texas on horseback and then to Mexico, Cuba, and Canada. There, he wrote his memoir, published in 1866, the first by a major general about the war. President Andrew Johnson pardoned Early in 1869, and he returned to Virginia and his legal practice. He was a devoted advocate of the Lost Cause and white supremacy in the postwar South.

Benjamin H. Greene (1829-1890) was born in South Carolina and educated at Emory College in Georgia and Columbia College in South Carolina. He began work as a railroad engineer in 1848. During the Civil War, Greene served as Assistant Inspector General and Chief Engineer of the II Corps in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, and served on the staffs of Generals Richard S. Ewell, Jubal A. Early, and John B. Gordon. In August 1864, Greene was captured and sent as a prisoner to Camp Chase, Ohio, where he remained for six months. After the war, he worked on railroads in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, and as Surveyor General of Montana.

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