| Summary: | (Not in uniform in photograph.) Injured early in his naval career, Maury devoted his life to science and writing. Founder of the science of hydrography and author of several books on the subject during the mid-nineteenth century. Resigned his U.S. Navy commission at the outbreak of war and was commissioned as a commander in the Confederate Navy, where he worked on the development of naval mines. He was also responsible for purchasing several foreign-built cruisers for Confederate service. After the war, Maury lived abroad before returning to Virginia to teach meteorology at the Virginia Military Institute. He died in Lexington, Virginia in February 1873 and is buried there.
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