Stephen R. Mallory Papers, 1835-1873.

Summary

Creator:
Mallory, Stephen R. (Stephen Russell), 1813-1873.
Abstract:

MICROFILM ONLY. United States senator and Confederate secretary of the Navy, from Florida. Letters, chiefly 1835-1872, mainly from Stephen R. Mallory to his wife and children while he was a member of the United States Senate, in Richmond as secretary of the Confederate Navy, as a prisoner of the federal government, 1865, and in Pensacola, Fla., during Reconstruction. Topics include social and political events in Washington, D.C., 1858; wartime conditions in Richmond, Va.; conditions during Mallory's imprisonment, 1865; and his efforts to obtain a presidential pardon and re-establish himself in Pensacola, and the condition of the family home there; and letters, 1868-1871, to his son, Atilla, at college, giving him advice on social and study habits.

Extent:
95 items
Language:
Materials in English
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Background

Biographical / historical:

United States senator and Confederate secretary of the Navy, from Florida.

Scope and content:

MICROFILM ONLY. Letters, chiefly 1835-1872, mainly from Stephen R. Mallory to his wife and children while he was a member of the United States Senate, in Richmond as secretary of the Confederate Navy, as a prisoner of the federal government, 1865, and in Pensacola, Fla., during Reconstruction. Topics include social and political events in Washington, D.C., 1858; wartime conditions in Richmond, Va.; conditions during Mallory's imprisonment, 1865; and his efforts to obtain a presidential pardon and re-establish himself in Pensacola, and the condition of the family home there; and letters, 1868-1871, to his son, Atilla, at college, giving him advice on social and study habits.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], in the Stephen R. Mallory Papers, #1186, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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