Stephen R. Mallory’s grave-United States Senator, Civil War Confederate States Cabinet Secretary. Following volunteer service in the Second Seminole War (1835 to 1842), he was elected as a Democratic Senator from Florida to the United States Senate and served from 1851 to 1861. At the beginning of the Civil War, he resigned his seat in the Senate to serve the Confederacy, and in February 1861 Confederate President Jefferson Davis appointed him Secretary of the Navy. At the time the Confederate Navy was all but nonexistent, but in time his navy accomplished numerous feats including the exploits of the “CSS Alabama” commanded by Raphael Semmes, the development of successful ironclad warships and the first submarine to sink an enemy ship, the “CSS Hunley”. In April 1865, he was captured in La Grange, Georgia, and held prisoner for almost a year. After his parole he returned to Pensacola and practiced law. Written by Don Connelly at findagrave.com

Excerpted from the cemetery website- The cemetery is located within the boundaries of the U.S. Naval Air Station. It was established in 1914 on the site of the old U.S. Navy Yard at Pensacola. A small cemetery had been maintained here in conjunction with the Marine Hospital that was located near Fort Barrancas. In 1838, the cemetery was expanded and established as a naval cemetery. During the Civil War years, many casualties were interred in gravesites initially set aside for personnel on duty at the Navy Yard. Many Union and Confederate dead were interred in the Barrancas cemetery. As the war continued, the remains of other casualties were brought here for burial. By agreement between the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of War, on January 30, 1868, the cemetery was transferred to the War Department to become Barrancas National Cemetery. In 1869, General Lorenzo Thomas, inspector of national cemeteries, reported that about 1,310 burials had been made in the cemetery. In addition to the troops stationed at Forts Barrancas and Pickens, remains had been reinterred here from the surrounding area, including Santa Rosa Island and Apalachicola in Franklin County. This total included the remains of 673 unknown Union soldiers.