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Smith's appointment of a staff major to brigade command over various colonels caused dissatisfaction despite Maclay being held in high regard by his men. In
January 1865, Smith gave Maclay a 60-day leave of absence in order to deal with the situation. There is no record that Maclay ever returned to
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January 14, 1863, and as commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department on February 9, 1863. General Smith assigned Maclay to duty as a brigadier general on May 13, 1864, to rank from April 30, 1864. Despite Smith
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Robert P. Maclay was born in the North and had relatives in the Union Army. Nonetheless, he sympathized with his neighbors and in-laws in the South. He joined the Pointe Coupee
Militia Regiment of the Louisiana Militia as a captain on December 16, 1861. He was appointed major and
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Virginia Medora Nutt in 1853. She died in 1856 and he inherited plantations in Louisiana and Mississippi from her. Maclay resigned as captain in the U.S. Army on December 31, 1860, in order to manage his Louisiana properties.
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