Jubal Anderson Early (November 3, 1816 – March 2, 1894) is a lawyer and Confederate general in the American Civil War.

He serves under Stonewall Jackson and then Robert E. Lee for almost the entire war, rising from regimental command to lieutenant general and the command of an infantry corps in the Army of Northern Virginia.

He is the Confederate commander in key battles of the Valley Campaigns of 1864, including a daring raid to the outskirts of Washington, D.C.

The articles written by him for the Southern Historical Society in the 1870s establish the Lost Cause point of view as a long-lasting literary and cultural phenomenon.