Courtesy of the York Daily Record and fellow blogger Jim McClure's entry on the York Town Blog.
Major General Jubal A. Early led a powerful division of Confederate infantry, artillery, and scattered cavalry elements into York County in late June 1863. Early's first evening in York was a rather memorable one for the crusty officer Robert E. Lee called "my bad old boy."
On March 5 and June 4, 1885, two decades after the war, from his home in Lynchburg, Virginia, an elderly Early penned a pair of letters to York County historian George Prowell relating his encounter with one of the local ladies of German extraction - an old woman from Big Mount who showed him some old-fashioned York County hospitality.
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