Alexander Mallory, son a wealthy farmer and merchant, was a school teacher in Brunswick County when he was conscripted into the army in 1862. He enlisted on February 22, 1862 as a sergeant in Company I of the 12th Virginia Infantry. He served only until October 7, 1862, when he provided a substitute, William Goode Talley, who was taken prisoner and died February 4,1865 at Elmira, NY.
After the war, Mallory again taught school, and was superintendent of the Brunswick County public schools in 1870-1871. Mallory didn't outlive his war substitute for long; he died of consumption on July 25, 1872 and is buried in Brunwick County, VA in the Raney-Mallory Family Cemetery.
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