AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED AS SECRETARY OF THE NAVY TO CONFEDERATE PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS, 7 FEBRUARY 1865, CONCERNING THE BATTLE OF NEW BERN AND THE GALLANT CONDUCT OF COMMANDER JOHN TAYLOR WOOD AND LIEUTENANT LOYALL.
Richmond: 1865 [February 7]. Single leaf, printed on recto only, in neat ink manuscript [light fading, but easily legible]. Blank verso with mounting remnants at the four corners. Very Good. Formerly a United States Senator from Florida, and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, Mallory became the Confederacy's..... More