“Whether we have the right of succession or revolution. I want to see my state triumphant.

“The issue became unmistakably clear on May 23 when an overwhelming majority of the state’s voters approved the ordinance of secession. Jubal now signed it. Having already offered his services to the government, he accepted a colonels commission in the Virginia militia and was assigned to the command and training of volunteers who had begun assembling in Lynchburg.”

Jubal Early, The Life and Times of General Jubal A. Early, Charles C. Osborne, p. Alonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1992, p. 52