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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.47 (search)
or, and received, an appointment to West Point. His comrades at West Point. In the corps of cadets at the Military Academy during General Maury's four years there were many men destined to become among the greatest in American annals—George B. McClellan, Thomas J. Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, A. P. Hill, Winfield Scott Hancock, Bee, Franklin, and dozens of others. The stories General Maury loved to tell of incidents connected with the school-life of these great captains were of the most inhis companions, That fellow looks as if he had come to stay. As the sergeant returned from installing the new arrival in quarters, he was asked the name of the stranger. He replied: Cadet Jackson, of Virginia. General Maury always spoke of McClellan as man, student, and soldier, in the highest terms. Grant was good in mathematics, but did not try to excel in anything save in horsemanship. In the riding school he was very daring. In the Mexican war. General Maury graduated in June,