promise beyond the declaration that on the of the armies the national authority would be enforced. Mr. Hunter said to Mr. Seward, "this means unconditional surrender.
The Confederate service of Judge Campbell was closed by his arrest by Federal authority and his confinement in Fort Pulaski for several months. After his release he resumed his law practice at New Orleans, 1866, enjoyed the esteem of his people, and died at Baltimore March 12, 1889.
Stephen Russell Mallory, secretary of the navy, was born in Trinidad, West Indies, in 1813, son of Charles Mallory, of Connecticut, who settled at Key West in 1820. He was educated at Mobile, and at Nazareth, Penn., and when nineteen years old was appointed in spector of customs at Key West. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1839; was judge of Monroe county and judge of probate; and in 1845 was appointed collector of customs at Key West. He served as a soldier in the war with the Seminoles. In 1850 he made a successful contest against David L. Yulee for the United States senate, was re-elected in 1857 and resigned in 1861. During his senatorship he was offered and declined the ministry to Spain. On February 21, 1861, he was tendered by President Davis the position of secretary of the navy, which he accepted and held until the dissolution of the government. In April, 1865, he left Richmond with Mr. Davis and proceeded as far as LaGrange, Georgia, where he was arrested. For ten months he was confined in Fort Lafayette, New York. On his release he returned to Pensacola and practiced law until his death, November 9, 1873.
John Henninger Reagan, postmaster-general of the Confederate States, was born in Sevier county, Tennessee. His early life was laborious and uneventful as a farm
