MAY 20TH, 1865: Former Confederate Secretary of the Navy Stephen Mallory was arrested at the home of Benjamin H. Hill in La Grange, Georgia, and charged with "treason and with organizing and setting on foot piratical expeditions."
he was taken to New York and imprisoned at Fort Lafayette, where he remained until paroled in March 1966. He was the last Confederate cabinet officer to gain his freedom.
Returning to Pensacola, he entered into law practice with Augustus E. Maxwell and wrote newspaper articles attacking reconstruction policies.
He died in November 1873.
A Job Well Done. --Old B-R'er
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