Recent Posts Tagged With 'jubal early'

• FREE Civil War talk in Emigsville: "Jubal Early invades Manchester Township"

  Posted on Sunday October 25th, 2009 at 22:02 in civilians, scott mingus, jubal early, gettysburg campaign, confederates, emigsville

  Major General Jubal Anderson Early, CSA, commanded the division of infantry and cavalry that devastated much of Manchester Township in central York County, Pennsylvania in the days immediately before the Battle of Gettysburg. (Library of Congress) ...

• Philadelphia reporter: Rebels behaved very well while in York

  Posted on Monday October 5th, 2009 at 07:10 in york, jubal early, gettysburg campaign, confederates

  Columbus (Ohio) Crisis, July 29, 1863, citing the Philadelphia Age, a long defunct newspaper. Several reporters from Philadelphia, Lancaster, Harrisburg, and Reading were in York during the Confederate occupation, along with some from out of state ...

• "Gimme my money already" - Jubal Early, CSA

  Posted on Wednesday September 30th, 2009 at 19:39 in york, civilians, jubal early, gettysburg campaign, confederates

  Cincinnati Daily Gazette, August 2, 1877. Courtesy of NewsinHistory.com Sunday, June 28, 1863, was a bitter day for the residents of York, Pennsylvania. More than 1,000 Confederate soldiers from North Carolina occupied the town, with a couple thou...

• York officials sought reimbursement for providing protection services

  Posted on Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 at 07:44 in york, railroads, civilians, jubal early, gettysburg campaign, confederates, northern central railway

  April 2008 political rally in York, Pennsylvania, for Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY). York Daily Record - Jason Plotkin York, Pennsylvania, received some national publicity for its efforts last year to recover city funds from the failed Hillary Clint...

• York County boys fought at Witmer Farm during the Gettysburg Campaign

  Posted on Monday August 24th, 2009 at 23:36 in yankees, hanover, jubal early, gettysburg campaign, 26th pennsylvania volunteer militia, witmer farm, 17th virginia cavalry

  Headstone of Private Ovid Stahl in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Hanover, Pennsylvania. Ovid Stahl, a native of York, Pennsylvania, was an eighteen-year-old private in Company I of the 26th Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia, a company that was recruited ...

• Extra Billy's Famous Speech at York: Fact, fiction, or faulty memory?

  Posted on Monday August 17th, 2009 at 06:42 in york, civilians, jubal early, gettysburg campaign, confederates, william "extra billy" smith

  William Smith (September 6, 1797 - May 18, 1887) was a lawyer, U.S. and Confederate congressman, two-time Governor of Virginia and one of the oldest Confederate generals in the Civil War. In the early 1831, Smith received a Federal contract from ...

• Gettysburg man recounts the bushwhacking of Jubal Early's division

  Posted on Monday July 27th, 2009 at 06:38 in civilians, john burns, cashtown inn, jubal early, bushwhackers, gettysburg campaign, elijah v. white, granville haller

  The historic Cashtown Inn has been restored in the past few decades and, under new management since 2006, is a popular dining spot in the foothills of the South Mountain Range west of Gettysburg. Back in the summer of 1863, innkeeper Jacob Mickley ...

• Yankee cavalry recovers part of the York ransom

  Posted on Tuesday July 7th, 2009 at 06:31 in yankees, civilians, jubal early, gettysburg campaign, confederates, union cavalry

  Maj. Gen. Jubal A. Early arrived in York on the afternoon of Sunday, June 28, 1863. He established his headquarters in the sheriff's office in the columned York County Courthouse on East Market Street. He ordered an aide, William Thornton, to transcr...

• Contemporary newspaper coverage of the occupation of York

  Posted on Monday May 25th, 2009 at 07:43 in york, knights of the golden circle, jubal early, gettysburg campaign, confederates, occupation of york

• Louisiana Tigers book update

  Posted on Thursday April 30th, 2009 at 07:03 in books, jubal early, gettysburg campaign, confederates, louisiana tigers, second battle of winchester, harry t. hays

  Many of you have asked about the status of my upcoming book on the Louisiana Tigers in the Gettysburg Campaign. LSU Press sent me word that the book is now at the typesetter and I should expect galley proofs about June 3-4. I will proof the text an...

• The Early and Stuart Controversy - Part 2 Ewell to blame?

  Posted on Tuesday April 7th, 2009 at 10:20 in york, jubal early, j.e.b. stuart, gettysburg campaign, confederates

  Several of you posted some interesting comments and thoughts in regard to whether Jubal Early or J.E.B. Stuart bears the brunt of the blame for their failure to rendezvous in York County on June 30, 1863, during the Gettysburg Campaign. Today's brie...

• The Early and Stuart controversy

  Posted on Monday April 6th, 2009 at 15:06 in jubal early, j.e.b. stuart, gettysburg campaign, confederates

  I will present over time some opposing views on whether J.E.B. Stuart or Jubal Early was at fault concerning missing their planned rendezvous in York on June 30, 1863, the day before the Battle of Gettysburg began. Stuart of course has been widely ca...

• East Berlin grist mill hit by Early's Division during march into York County

  Posted on Sunday March 8th, 2009 at 06:20 in mills, other places, civilians, east berlin, grist mills, jubal early, gettysburg campaign, confederates, old mills

  This old grist mill on the banks of the Big Conewago Creek in extreme southern Washington Township, York County, Pennsylvania, has a long and storied history, including playing a role in feeding Confederate troops in the Gettysburg Campaign during ...

• Letters from York woman chronicles the Confederate occupation

  Posted on Saturday February 28th, 2009 at 04:42 in york, civilians, jubal early, gettysburg campaign, confederates, john b. gordon, cassandra small, occupation of york

  Photo courtesy of the York County Heritage Trust. Cassandra Morris Small was a 34-year-old single woman living with her parents, wealthy industrialist Philip A. Small and his wife, in a house on E. Market Street across from the Yorktowne Hotel. Sh...