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No biography exists
for Early in the National
Archives. Below is my biography. Entries in blue are references
and my additions
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Eugene V. Early was 23 years old
when the war started. He listed Lafayette County, Missouri as his
home, but is not found there in the 1860 census. The 1870 census
shows him born in Missouri and working as a Railroad Agent in
Lauderdale County, Mississippi. He married Eunice Wallingham in
1868; she died the following year. Two young children are living with
him in the 1870 Census, but no wife. In the summer of 1871, he was
appointed Superintendent and Treasurer of the bankrupt Alabama &
Chattanooga RR (operating from Meridian to Attalla). He is
found as a member of the Committee of Safety after the March 15,
1871 riot in Meridian, Mississippi, then as Mayor of Meridian, in 1874-5, having obviously
decided to settle there after his war service in the town. He was
the Station Agent at Meridian for the Mobile & Ohio RR until his
death in 1878. |
| December 12, 1862 -
March 7, 1863 |
Traveled purchasing
army supplies for Gen. Price and as Special Messenger
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| June 12, 1863 |
Paid
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| September 28, 1863 |
Recommended to be
appointed Transportation Agent
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| October 1, 1863 |
Sold a mule to the
Government
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| October 30, 1863 |
Asked the status of
his appointment
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| November 18, 1863 |
Appointed an Agent
of the Quartermaster's Dept. assigned as Transportation Agent at
Meridian, Miss.
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| December 31, 1863 |
Paid
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| January 31, 1864 |
Paid
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| February, 1864 |
Evacuated Meridian
with Polk's army to Demopolis and returned to Meridian |
| February 29, 1864 |
Paid
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| April 30, 1864 |
Asked for
instructions regarding shipping donations to the army
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| May 31, 1864 |
Paid
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| June 13, 1864 |
Requisitioned office
supplies
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| June 15, 1864 |
Requested promotion
to Captain and AQM
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| October, 1864 |
Listed as
Transportation Agent at Meridian, Miss. |
| December 22, 1864 |
QMG directed he be
returned to his job at Meridian
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| February 14, 1865 |
Forwarded his bond
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| May 11, 1865 |
Paroled at Meridian,
Miss. |
| October 30, 1878 |
Died of yellow fever
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