... as one of the hardest fighters of the struggle; and every confidence was felt in him as a combatant, even by his personal enemies. This repute he had won on many fields, from the first Manassas to Winchester ; for one of the hardest fights of the war, if it was a defeat, was that affair on the Opequon. It was not so much good judgment that General Early wanted in his Valley campaign, as troops. He...