| Summary: | (Collar indicates rank of brigadier general, though the button arrangement does not.) Graduated from West Point, 1846; Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in May 1861 and was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate Army in July 1861. After promoting through the grades, Maury was promoted to brigadier general in March 1862 and major general in November 1862. Major campaigns and battles include Pea Ridge, Iuka, and Corinth. Commanded the District of the Gulf for the rest of the war. After the war, Maury settled in New Orleans, Louisiana, as a businessman and later organized the Southern Historical Society. Maury died in Peoria, Illinois, in January 1900 and is buried in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 4. National Historical Society, 1991.
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