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Early, Jubal A., Lieut. Gen. A Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence, in the Confederate States of America; Containing an Account of the Operations of his Commands in the Years 1864 and 1865. Augusta (GA): Steam Printing Presses of Chronicle & Sentinel, 1867. 8vo, brown cloth with applied label on front, 145pp. Leaves beginning to separate, but all appear to be present except maybe a rear free endpaper or two (there are two loose in front, one might be from back). Spine nearly gone. A rare volume. Jubal Anderson Early (1816-1894) was a Virginian by birth. He graduated from USMA in 1837, and was sent to fight the wars against the Seminole in Florida. He left the army the following year to practice law, but rejoined when war with Mexico erupted. He served as a Major from 1847-1848. Although he strongly opposed secession, with Lincoln's call for troops in the North, Early was commissioned as Brig. Gen. in Virginia. His unit was then accepted into Confederate service, and he served as its Colonel. After the first battle of Manassas, he received his Confederated generalcy. His primary focus was the Eastern Theater, where he harassed Federal forces throughout the war. One of his goals in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864 was to lure away Federal forces then threatening Petersburg and Richmond. When the ANV surrendered on April 9, Early escaped to Texas, hoping to serve a force which had not yet surrendered. He went from there to Mexico, then Cuba, and finally Toronto, Canada. There he wrote this memoir, which was first published in Toronto in 1866. It was published in New Orleans and Augusta in 1867 (with no apparent priority). Early was pardoned by Andrew Johnson in 1868, but remained "unreconstructed." Although he probably did not invent it, he was one of the most vocal promoters of the "Lost Cause," writing for the Southern Historical Society in the 1870s, suggesting that the South lost the war because of factors beyond their control - especially the superior numbers and industrial capacity of the North. McClellan, H[enry]. B[rainerd]. The Life and Campaigns of Major-General J.E.B. Stuart, Commander of the Cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company and Richmond (VA): J.W. Randolph and English, 1885. 8vo, black cloth with black leatherette spine, applied spine label with gilt lettering, printed endpapers, 468pp. Title page missing; binding "broken" in center, with other pages coming loose. Henry Brainerd McClellan (1840-1904) was born into a family with a history of military service. His great-grandfather was a general in the Continental Army. He had four brothers who fought for the Union, one of whom, Carswell, was AAG to Maj. Gen. Andrew A. Humphreys. He was also first cousin to Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan. James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart (1833-1864) graduated from USMA in 1854 and served fighting Indians in Texas and Kansas, and was with the army during the "Bleeding Kansas" violence before war officially broke out. He, like so many others, resigned his commission in April 1861 and offered his services to his home state and the Confederacy. He cultivated the "dashing" cavalry image, with red-lined cape and ostrich plume on his hat, worn cocked to the side. But this would not have been enough had he not demonstrated his usefulness as Lee's eyes and ears in the field. However, it was this role that has been at the core of many arguments among historians. Was the surprise attack by Federals at Brandy Station and Stuart's separation from Lee's army a major contributing factor to the defeat at Gettysburg? Lee clearly did not know of Union troop movements in that area, and usually it was Stuart's role to keep Lee informed. (Others argue that it was just bad timing and luck, or Lee's vague orders to blame. It will keep historians occupied for another generation, anyway.) McClellan gives his view of Stuart's actions, as ANV Cavalry chief of staff and Stuart's AAG.