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Lt. Col. John William Mallet

Born in Dublin, he was the son of Robert Mallet, a famous Irish engineer. John W played a key role for the Confederate army in the American Civil War, where he attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, by setting up and running its main munitions factory at Macon, Georgia. He also helped found the University of Texas at Austin and was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Virginia. Despite settling in America he remained a British citizen.

Picture reproduced from The Photographic History of the Civil War ed. by Francis Trevelyan Miller, 10 vols. (New York: Review of the Reviews, 1911), 10: 27.

Photo used with the kind permission of Leon Basile (Find-a Grave.com)

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