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When I took charge of the Georgia Room, in the Confederate Museum, in Richmond, Virginia in 1897, I found among the De Renne collection an engraving of the pleasant, intellectual face of Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury, so I went to his son, Colonel Richard L. Maury, who had been with his father in all his work here, and urged him to write the history of it, while memory, papers and books could be referred to; this carefully written, accurate paper was the result. At one time, when Commodore Maury was very sick, he asked one of his daughters to get the Bible and read to him | A brief sketch of the work of Matthew by Richard L. Maury 1 MANY BOOKS .h. L A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE WORK OF MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY DURING THE WAR Richard L. Maury COMPLETE UNABRÍDGED A brief sketch of the work of Matthew by Richard L. Maury The Project Gutenberg EBook of A brief sketch of the work of Matthew Fontaine Maury during the war 1861-1865 by Richard L. Maury This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title A brief sketch of the work of Matthew Fontaine Maury during the war 1861-1865 Author Richard L. Maury Release Date October 14 2010 EBook 34068 Language English Character set encoding ASCII START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WORK OF MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY Produced by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive American Libraries. A Brief Sketch of the Work 2 A brief sketch of the work of Matthew by Richard L. Maury of MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY During the War 1861-1865 BY HIS SON RICHARD L. MAURY RICHMOND Richmond WHITTET SHEPPERSON 1915 COPYRIGHTED 1915 BY KATHERINE C. STILES INTRODUCTION When I took charge of the Georgia Room in the Confederate Museum in Richmond Virginia in 1897 I found among the De Renne collection an engraving of the pleasant intellectual face of Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury so I went to his son Colonel Richard L. Maury who had been with his father in all his work here and urged him to write the history of it while memory papers and books could be referred to this carefully written accurate paper was the result. At one time when Commodore Maury was very sick he asked one of his daughters to get the Bible and read to him. She chose Psalm 8 the eighth verse of which speaks of whatsoever walketh through the paths of the sea he .