James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee
Clement Anselm Evans, Ed.

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[323] with such ability that on the 16th of April, 1862, he was commissioned a brigadier-general. In this, his first battle in command of brigade, General Cheatham reported that he led a charge in person with dashing gallantry, ‘one of the most brilliant, as it was certainly one of the most decisive, movements of the day.’ His brigade consisted at first of the First, Fourth, Sixth, Ninth and Twenty-seventh Tennessee regiments of infantry, Major Maney's battalion of Tennessee infantry, and Capt. Melancthon Smith's battery of light artillery. The Forty-first and Fiftieth Tennessee regiments of infantry were afterward added to this brigade. At the battle of Perryville the Forty-first Georgia was also in his command. General Maney was in the hottest of the fight at Perryville, also at Murfreesboro, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge. Through the marching, digging and fighting of the long death-grapple known as the Atlanta campaign, Maney's brigade was still conspicuous, and among the most trusted of the soldiers of Johnston and Hood. Throughout the war there was no more faithful soldier of the Confederate States than Gen. George Maney. Attentive to every detail, a good disciplinarian, careful of the wants of his men, skillful and courageous in battle, implicitly relied upon by his division and corps commanders, he ranked among the best of the many excellent brigadier-generals of the army of Tennessee, a body of men that needed only a Lee or a Jackson to make it the equal in fortune as in valor of the noble army of Northern Virginia. General Maney is one of the few officers of the army of Tennessee who had the distinction of serving at any time under Gen. Stonewall Jackson. It was in the Bath expedition that Jackson directed Loring to send a regiment to advance from the Confederate left along the mountain which commanded the town. Jackson in his report says: ‘He [Loring] directed Colonel Maney to execute the order, and it was undertaken with a patriotic enthusiasm which entitles the First ’