{⋆★⋆} MG Maury, Dabney H.

Dabney Herndon Maury

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Born: May 21, 1822

Birth Place: Fredericksburg, Virginia

Father: John Minor Maury 1795 – 1823
(Buried: Confederate Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Virginia)​

Mother: Elizabeth Herndon 1793 – 1872
(Buried: Confederate Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Virginia)​

Wife: Anna Augusta Rose Mason 1829 – 1876
(Buried: Confederate Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Virginia)​

Children:

Eliza Fontaine Maury 1854 – 1856​
(Buried: Confederate Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Virginia)​
Roy Mason Maury 1857 – 1857​
(Buried: Confederate Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Virginia)​
Susan Mason Maury Halsey 1858 – Unknown​
Dabney Herndon Maury Jr. 1863 – 1933​
(Buried: Confederate Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Virginia)​
William Maury 1872 – 1872​
(Buried: Confederate Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Virginia)​

Education:

1841: Graduated from University of Virginia​
1846: Graduated from West Point Military Academy – (37th in class)​

Occupation before War:

1846 – 1847: Brevet, 2nd Lt. United States Army, Mounted Rifles​
1847: Served in the Siege of Vera Cruz, Mexico​
1847: Wounded in the Battle of Cerro Gordo, Mexico​
1847: Brevetted 1st Lt. for Gallantry at Battle of Cerro Gordo, Mexico​
1847 – 1848: 2nd Lt. United States Army, 3rd Artillery​
1847 – 1850: Assistant Professor of Geography History at West Point​
1848 – 1853: 2nd Lt. United States Army, Mounted Rifles
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1850 – 1852: Assistant Instructor of Infantry Tactics at West Point​
1852 – 1853: Frontier Duty at Fort Inge, Texas​
1853 – 1861: 1st Lt. United States Army, Mounted Rifles​
1854: Escort for Commanding General of the Department of Texas​
1854 – 1855: Frontier Duty at Fort McIntosh, Texas​
1855 – 1858: Recruiter for United States Army​
1858: Author of Tactics of Mounted Rifles
1858 – 1860: Adjutant of United States Army, Mounted Rifles​
1858 – 1859: Adjutant at the Cavalry School of Practice​
1860: Brevetted Captain and Assistant Adjutant General​
1860 – 1861: Assistant Adjutant General for Dept. of New Mexico​
1861: Dismissed from United States Army on June 25th

Civil War Career:

1861 – 1862: Colonel & Adjutant General to Earl Van Dorn​
1862: Brigadier General of Confederate Army Infantry​
1862: Division Leader during the Battle of Corinth​
1862 – 1865: Major General of Confederate Army, Infantry​
1862 – 1865: Participated in the Defense of Mobile, Alabama
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Occupation after War:

Helped establish an Academy in Fredericksburg, Virginia​
Failed businessman in New Orleans, Louisiana​
Helped organize Southern Historical Society​
1886: Author of Skirmish Drill for Mounted Troops
1887 – 1889: United States Minister to Columbia​

Died: January 11, 1900

Place of Death: Peoria, Illinois

Age at time of Death: 77 years old

Cause of Death: Poor health

Burial Place: Confederate Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Virginia

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One of the fathers of "The Lost Cause" and self appointed protector of the "Marble Man" and his reputation.
Regards
David
 
Among Maury's classmates were Stonewall Jackson and George Pickett. A. P. Hill was originally in the class but pushed back a year due to illness. According Byron Farwell's biography of Stonewall Jackson Maury, Hill, and Pickett were among the first to see Jackson on his arrival. Jackson's backcountry manners did not mesh well with his more gentile Virginia classmates.
 
Among Maury's classmates were Stonewall Jackson and George Pickett. A. P. Hill was originally in the class but pushed back a year due to illness. According Byron Farwell's biography of Stonewall Jackson Maury, Hill, and Pickett were among the first to see Jackson on his arrival. Jackson's backcountry manners did not mesh well with his more gentile Virginia classmates.
Big Class, 1846 West Point had 59 graduates including George McClellan.
 
On November 7th, 1863, Dabney Maury, commanding in Mobile, sent a request to Richmond to allow him to recruit from the free mixed-race "creole" population of the city into the Confederate army, despite them having "negro blood in the degree which disqualifies other persons of the negro race from the rights of citizens". However, Secretary of War Seddon replied: "Our position with the North and before the world will not allow the employment as soldiers of negroes. If these creoles can be naturally and properly discriminated from negroes, the authority may be considered as conferred. Otherwise not, unless you can enlist them "navvies" (to use the English term) or for subordinate working purposes". There was no reply for Maury; presumably no further action was taken (O.R.s, Series 4, Volume 2, pg. 941).
This was not the first attempt at such an endeavors, as a Captain G. Huggins Cleveland proposed to raise a battalion of these same men in late April, 1862; no response is recorded, but from Maury's request a year and a half later, it can be surmised that this never got off the ground.
 
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