Background
MANEY, George Earl was born on August 24, 1826 in Franklin, Tennessee, United States, United States. Son of Thomas and Rebecca (Southall) Maney.
General lawyer military railroad president
MANEY, George Earl was born on August 24, 1826 in Franklin, Tennessee, United States, United States. Son of Thomas and Rebecca (Southall) Maney.
Private school.
He attended Nashville Seminary and graduated from the University of Nashville in 1845. His marriage to Bettie Crutcher on June 23, 1853, produced two sons and three daughters. During the Mexican War, Maney served as a lieutenant in the Tennessee Infantry, but he left military service in 1848.
Two years later, he was admitted to the Tennessee bar and he practiced in Nashville before the war. When the Civil War began, he volunteered for service in the Confederate Army. After entering as colonel of the 1st Tennessee Infantry, he fought in the Cheat Mountain campaign of September 1861 in northwestern Virginia.
In February 1862, he asked to be sent to Tennessee. As commander of the 2nd Brigade of the Army of Mississippi, he distinguished himself at the battle of Shiloh, for which he was promoted to brigadier general on April 16, 1862. He participated in the battles of Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, and Missionary Ridge before being wounded at Chattanooga in late 1863.
He was captured during the battle of Atlanta in August 1864, and although he was subsequently released and ended the war years in the Carolinas, he saw no further action. He surrendered in Greensboro, North Carolina, and was subsequently paroled on May 1, 1865. He returned to his Nashville law practice and became president of the Tennessee and Pacific Railroad in 1868.
He joined the Republican party, served in the Tennessee legislature, and entered and then withdrew from the gubernatorial race of 1876. President Arthur appointed Maney U.S. minister of Colombia in 1881 and to Bolivia in 1882. President Harrison appointed him U.S. minister to Uruguay and Paraguay in 1889-1900.
He remained in Paraguay until 1894 and then retired to Washington, D.C.
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
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