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Richard L. (Richard Lancelot) Maury
1840–1907
A Confederate veteran, lawyer, and Virginia writer, he is remembered for works that mix family history, Civil War memory, and regional history. His best-known writing includes a memoir of his father, oceanographer Matthew Fontaine Maury, and studies of Virginia's past.
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A brief sketch of the work of Matthew Fontaine Maury during the war, 1861-1865
by Richard L. (Richard Lancelot) Maury
About the author
Born in 1840 and dying in 1907, Richard Lancelot Maury was a Virginian whose life connected military service, law, and historical writing. Library and archival records identify him as a Confederate soldier and later a lawyer in Richmond, and list a body of work that includes A Brief Sketch of the Work of Matthew Fontaine Maury During the War, 1861–1865, The Huguenots in Virginia, and Physical Survey of Virginia.
He was the son of Matthew Fontaine Maury, and one of his most noted books focused on preserving his father's wartime work and reputation. That family connection helps explain the strong memorial tone in some of his writing, which often looks backward at people, places, and events tied to Virginia and the Civil War era.
Today, Maury is mostly encountered through older public-domain texts and archival collections rather than through a large modern readership. Even so, his books remain useful to listeners interested in nineteenth-century Southern history, biographical remembrance, and firsthand-era interpretations of Virginia's past.