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Confederate (CSA)

Lieutenant

Samuel Henry Early

(1813 - 1874)

Home State: Virginia

Education: William & Mary

Branch of Service: Staff

Unit: Early's Brigade

Before Sharpsburg

He was a lawyer and postmaster in Franklin County, VA, then a farmer in Texas. He enlisted as Private in Company B, 2nd Virginia Cavalry 13 May 1861. He was appointed Lieutenant and aide-de-camp (ADC) to his brother General Jubal Early on 11 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the left leg in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He resigned on 19 November 1862. He was Volunteer ADC to his brother at Gettysburg in 1863, and wounded slightly in the foot there. He then served as a conscription officer in Lynchburg, VA.

After the War

He was a lumber man and salt maker in Charleston, WV.

References & notes

Service from Krick.1

Birth

01/22/1813; Franklin County, VA

Death

03/11/1874; Charleston, WV; burial in Spring Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, VA

Notes

1 Krick, Robert E.L., Staff Officers in Gray; A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003, pg. 118 [AotW citation 17546]

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