Biography
Stephen R. Mallory was a former U.S. senator from Florida and the Confederate secretary of the navy. Stephen R. Mallory was arrested on May 20, 1865 and confined at Fort Lafayette as a political prisoner, accused of treason and of organizing piratical expeditions. The prosecution was never pursued; he was paroled in March 1866 after about ten months and later pardoned. A postwar political and state-security detention.
The National Park Service’s Burt-Stark Mansion history places Mallory’s arrest at La Grange, Georgia, where his family had taken refuge. It records his subsequent confinement at Fort Lafayette until March 11, 1866.
Edwin C. Bearss, Burt-Stark Mansion National Historic Landmark nomination, April 28, 1992, page 22.
Case
Fort Lafayette
