General Jubal Early
Character Key Number:
2810
Display Name:
General Jubal Early
Sort Name:
Early, General Jubal
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
A Confederate general in the Civil War who fought in the war's eastern theater. The essays he wrote for the Southern Historical Society in the 1870s contributed to the myth of the Lost Cause. But he died in 1894, and so could not have made the comment about General Wheeler serving the U.S. in the Spanish-American War that "My Grandmother Millard" attributes to him (673).