Jubal Anderson Early: Glory to Ignominy, His Shenandoah Valley Campaign

摘要

In June 1864 LTG Ulysses S. Grant's Union army held Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in a vise-like grip at Petersburg. The siege would succeed unless the Confederates weakened Grant's hold. Lee sent LTG Jubal A. Early to the Shenandoah Valley to pressure Union forces there and threaten Washington, D.C. Upon his repulse from the capital, Early returned to the Valley. His further operations compelled Grant to send MG Philip Sheridan to defeat him. By March 1865, Early's army was destroyed. (Author)