Ambassadors to Paraguay - United States Ambassadors to Paraguay, George Maney, John Raymond Ylitalo, United States Ambassador to Paraguay (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: United States Ambassadors to Paraguay, George Maney, John Raymond Ylitalo, United States Ambassador to Paraguay, Martin T. Mcmahon, Lyle Franklin Lane, Willard L. Beaulac, Robert White, James Cason, Maura Harty, George W. Landau. Excerpt: American Civil War George Earl Maney (August 24, 1826 February 9, 1901) was an American soldier, politician, railroad executive and diplomat. He was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a postbellum U.S. ambassador to Colombia, Bolivia, Uruguay, and Paraguay. George Maney was born in Franklin, Tennessee, to Judge Thomas Maney, a prominent newspaper editor and circuit judge. Young Maney attended the Nashville Seminary before graduating from the University of Nashville in 1845. He enlisted as a second lieutenant in the 1st Tennessee Regiment during the Mexican-American War. When his three-months term of enlistment expired, he enrolled in the United States Army and served as a first lieutenant in the 3rd U.S. Dragoons, which participated in General Winfield Scott's march to Mexico City. When hostilities ceased, Maney returned home. He studied law, passed his bar exam in 1850, and established a prosperous law practice in Franklin. He subsequently became a politician, being elected to the Tennessee State Legislature. He married Elizabeth T. "Betty" Crutcher of Nashville in 1853 and raised a family of five children. Following the secession of Tennessee and the beginning of the Civil War, Maney enlisted in the Confederate army as a captain in the 11th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry. On May 6, 1861, he became colonel of the 1st Tennessee. He served in western Virginia first under Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Cheat Mountain and later under Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson at Bath... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16679796