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Maury, Dabney Herndon 1822-
Military officer: born in Fredericksburg, Va., May 21, 1822; graduated at the University of Virginia; and at the United States Military Academy in 1846; joined the Mounted Rifles in the same year, and served with marked distinction in the Mexican War. During the interval between that struggle and the Civil War he was an instructor at West Point and later superintendent of cavalry instruction and regimental adjutant at Carlisle Barracks.
In 1861 he resigned his post and became a colonel in the Confederate army; was promoted brigadier-general for gallantry in the Elkhorn campaign.
His publications include System of tactics in single rank; Recollections of a Virginian; History of Virginia, etc. He died in Peoria, Ill., Jan. 11, 1900.