Inventory of the Stephen R. Mallory Papers, 1835-1873

Collection Number 1186


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Collection Information


Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: 919/962-1345
Fax: 919/962-3594
Email: mss@email.unc.edu
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Mallory, Stephen R. (Stephen Russell), 1813-1873.
Title
Stephen R. Mallory Papers, 1835-1873.
Call Number
1186
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
95 items.
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.


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Administrative Information

Location of Originals
Originals privately owned at time of filming.
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Stephen R. Mallory Papers, #1186, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

College students--Southern States--Conduct of life--19th century.
Confederate States of America--Officials and employees.
Confederate States of America--Politics and government.
Fathers and sons--Southern States--History--19th century.
Mallory, Atilla F.
Mallory, Stephen R. (Stephen Russell), 1813-1873.
Pensacola (Fla.)--History--1865-1950.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Florida.
Richmond (Va.)--Social conditions.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
United States--Politics and government--1849-1861.
Washington (D.C.)--Social life and customs.
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Related Material

Stephen Russell Mallory Diary and Recollections (#2229), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Biographical Note

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

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Collection Overview

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.