Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Early” in chapter 30, page 535 of Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia:
...he Shenandoah valley, the lower portion of which was still held by a large army under Sheridan, while but the fragments of an army, chiefly of broken down cavalry, remained in his command.
Lee told Early that he was left in the Valley to
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