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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address of General Dabney H. Maury at the Reunion of Confederate veterans, Maury camp, no. 2, Fredericksburg, Va., August 23, 1883. (search)
harts, which, under him, was developed into the National Observatory at Washington, the great world center of Hydrographical Science. There he issued his Wind and Current Charts and published his Physical Geography of the Sea. In the words of Humboldt, he created a new science. There he marked out the tracks of speed and safety for mariners of every clime over the ocean's bosom, and showed the beds on the bottoms of the seas where the telegraph now safely lies. And at his call all the maratime nations sent their officers to learn of him in the great Conference at Brussels. Honors now were richly poured upon him. Every Emperor, King and Potentate of Europe sent him orders, medals and jeweled decorations. And Humboldt sent him his great Cosmos medal. Of a truth he had been diligent in his business, and was declared worthy to stand before Kings. The war between the States now approached and filled him with apprehension. It broke forth while he was in the very climax of his f