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| | Stephen Russell Mallory |
 | | MALLORY, Stephen Russell, statesman, born in Trinidad, Wisconsin, in 1818; died in Pensacola, Florida, 9 November, IS73. |
 | | He had not only to organize and administer, but to build the ships and boats, provide as best he could their ordnance and machinery, and create a naval force in a country whose ports were rapidly blockaded and which possessed resources only in a crude state. |
 | | Mallory left Richmond in company with Jefferson Davis on the abandonment of that city by the Confederate government in April, 1865. |
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