[CIVIL WAR]. MALLORY, Stephen R. (1813-1873), Confederate Secretary of the Navy. Letter signed ("S R Mallory") as Confederate Secretary of the Navy, to Jonathan Taylor Wood, Richmond, 23 July 1864. 3½ pages, 4to, Confederate States of America Navy Dep
the South declared that its citizens had aconstitutionalright to take enslaved people there. Of the seeming stalemate produced by the Missouri Compromise, U.S. Secretary of StateJohn Quincy Adamsobserved, “Take it for granted that the present is a mere preamble—a title page to a great, trag...
It examines the efforts of Confederate Secretary of the Navy Stephen Mallory to construct ironclad warships within the Confederacy, the conversion of the sunken U.S. warship "Merrimack" into an ironclad, and the construction and use of the ironclad "Arkansas." It also discusses the Confederate ...
Not only did the Confederates lack any semblance of a navy, they had few raw materials with which to construct one. The daunting task of building a navy fell on the shoulders of Stephen Mallory, newly appointed secretary of the navy. A former United States senator from Florida, Mallory had...
Mallory, secretary of the navy, and John H. Reagan, postmaster general. Search for Recognition and Support The story of the Confederacy is essentially the story of the loss of the Civil War. Even with its early military triumphs, the Confederacy experienced trying days. It never won ...
The Confederate Naval Secretary, Stephen R. Mallory, sent the shrewd and affable James D. Bulloch to Europe as chief of naval purchasing. To continue reading this article you need to purchase a subscription, available from only £5.
Within months of his appointment, he stepped down to join the Confederate States Army as a brigadier general in July 1861. Christopher Memminger, the first Secretary of the Treasury, had consistently fought the separatist movement since 1832; L. Pope Walker, the first Secretary of War, had ...
Judah Philip Benjamin (1811–84) was the Confederacy's first attorney general. Appointed by President Davis, Benjamin was confirmed on March 5, 1861, and served until November 21, 1861, when he was named secretary of war. As attorney general, he wrote 13 opinions on such matters as agricult...
Secretary of State Dean Rusk, President Johnson wondered whether it was indeed reasonable for him to believe it was the Egyptian tank movement toward Israel – which the IDF spokesman had announced – that had set the war in motion. Rusk considered this: “It’s possible. But I’d put ...
Christopher Memminger of South Carolina became secretary of the treasury; Robert Toombs of Georgia, secretary of state; Stephen Mallory of Florida, secretary of the navy; Leroy Walker of Alabama, secretary of war; Judah Benjamin of Louisiana, attorney general; and John Reagan of Texas, postmaster...