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

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• 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.

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

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

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.