The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-11-29

and comfort to the side, and cheerful
ly and gladly relinquishing all. he
chose to cast in his lot with his state
Leaving New York he came to North
Carolina and was made Captain Or
company of North Carolina state
troops which he raised He had six
brothers, every one of whom served
in the Confederate Army, and two OF
whom were killed on the field OF bat
tie.
Colonel Mallett was promoted 10
Major in 1862, and Colonel in 1869,
when he was made commandant OF
the Camp of Conscription at Raleigh,
where the new conscripts and recruits
were gathered to drill. He had been
in active service on the Potomac and
when ordered to take charge Of the
Camp of Conscription at Raleigh, he
at first refused, as his desire was to
be at the front in active service, bat
he felt it was his duty to obey orders.
and giving up his cherished desire ne
obeyed the call Of duty and went to
Raleigh. With all the troops under
his command he was ordered to the
front to join the army which was hur
riedly being formed from every ma
terial that could be called into the
field, to meet General Foster, who
with a Federal army of some twenty
thousand strong was marching into
the interior Of the state from Newbern
He with his troops was attached to
the command under General Evans Of
South Carolina, and at the battle Of
Kinston was severely wounded in the
left leg, taken prisoner and Daroled.
His wound was a severe one, and from
the effects of it was confined for
nearly nine months. Upon his recov~
cry he returned to the camp at Raj
eigh where he remained until the sur
render of General Lee; he was then
ordered by General Holmes, in com
mand of the department Of Nortl
Carolina, to attach himself to Presi-
dent Davis and follow him with the
cavalry. His attendance upon Prssi-
dent Davis, however, ended with the
surrender Of General Johnson. Col
onel Mallett then returned to Fayette-
vile, N. c., where he Joined his fam
lily. Shortly afterwards he removed to
Wilmington where ne engaged in bus
mess for short while. In 1868 he
went to New York to represent the
Company in that city, as he afterward
said, having done all the harm J
could down south | returned to New
York with all my baggage, a wife and
six children for the purpose of trying
to get back some Of the fortune which
I left behind me there On the break
ing CIT OF the war"
In 1872 he went into the warehouse
business for the storage of cotton and
was the first warehouse man to en-
gage largely in the storage of cotton
in Brooklyn In this business he con-
tinued until his failing health compell- |
ed him to give it up. Later in life, J
after the death of his first wife, he
was again married to Mrs Frank |
Dean, of Brooklyn, n. Y, who still |
survives him. Of his large family he !
has left behind him besides his wife, |
only four children, Mrs. Gabriel Hol- |
mes of Wilmington, N. c., DR.. George !
f. Mallett, of New York City, and |
Dr.. E. Pierre Mallett, of Kansas City,
md Mr.. Charles E. Ma1lett, of Etowah. |
Y. C.
Colonel Mallett was one Of the old |
school gentlemen of the south, a class
If men, which alas, are so rapidly |
He was man of most
genial and lovab1e disposition, true
Ind steadfast friend, and a man with
he highest sense of honor and of |
he duty of a true son of his state
md his southern country. In the ma
esty of years he has completed his
earthly labors and we'll earned eter-
lal rest.