A picture of him is on page 89 with caption:
"Midshipman Charles King Mallory. "Young Mallory" was a great favorite among the Chattahoochee's officers and men. The first to board the USS Congress after the CSS Virginia had defeated her, he was transferred with Catesby ap R. Jones to the CSS Chattahoochee.
The account of his death following the boiler explosion on May 27, 1863, combined bravery and pathos.
His family had his remains sent home to Virginia and interred at St. John's, Hampton.
--Old B-R'er
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