Credit: Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early C.S.A. Autobiographical Sketch and Narratve of the War Between the States: With Notes by Jubal Early, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1912.
As the sun set over York on June 28, 1863, General Jubal A. Early loudly threatened to burn anything useful to the Union; especially the rail facilities on the edge of town. As darkness fell and York trembled, Early had handbills printed to explain why he would spare the town–and to indulge in a bit of Confederate propaganda. Unlike what the Yankees had done to the South, "We do not war on women and children," Early wrote. At the end of the Civil War, Early fled to Mexico and Canada rather than surrender. Pardoned by President Andrew Johnson in 1868, he never took the oath of allegiance and remained an unreconstructed Rebel and major spokesman for the Lost Cause. As president of the Southern Historical Society he would help engineer the deification of Robert E. Lee
