Southern Historical Society: Accounts of Pickett's Charge and the Battle of Gettysburg (Illustrated)

When the Civil War began, Dabney Maury (1822-1900) was the Assistant Adjutant General in the New Mexico Territory, based in Santa Fe. Hearing the news of the firing on Fort Sumter, he resigned from the United States Army and travelled back to Virginia. He entered the Confederate Army as a colonel, serving as an Adjutant General, then was Chief of Staff under General Earl Van Dorn. Following the Battle of Pea Ridge, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general and assigned to field comma...