Captain Parker of the Confederate States Navy also had this to say about young midshipman Mallory: "After serving with me in three engagements, he was ordered to the gunboat Chattahoochee, at Columbus, Georgia, and lost his life by the explosion of her boiler.
"He was from Hampton and was an honor to his birthplace. Had he lived and had the opportunity he would have become a great naval officer."
After the explosion, young Mallory, although badly injured, swam ashore, but died after in the Ladies' Hospital, Columbus, June 2d, 1863, at age of eighteen and a half.
He was, of course, unmarried.
--Old B-R'er
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