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GARRICK MALLERY. 
nized and made serviceable by those in high command. 
While the military occupation of the State of Virginia yet 
continued, Colonel Mallery was appointed judge advocate of 
the first military district. He subsequently acted as secre¬ 
tary of state and adjutant general of Virginia, which latter 
appointment continued until February 15, 1870. Colonel 
Mallery was honorably mustered out of the volunteer service 
in November, 1866, and at the same time accepted a com¬ 
mission in the regular army as captain, with an assignment 
to the Forty-third infantry. He received the brevet com¬ 
missions of major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel (the last 
in the volunteer service) for “ gallant and meritorious serv¬ 
ices during the war.” He was on duty in the office of the 
Chief Signal Officer of the Army for nearly six years, but his 
old wounds rendering him unfit for field duty, he was retired 
at his own request in 1879. 
In 1870 Colonel Mallery was married to Miss Helen W. 
Wyckoff, daughter of the Rev. A. Voorhis Wyckoff, whose 
ancestors were among the early Dutch settlers of New York. 
Through her mother this lady was descended from Colonel 
Richard Townley, who came to this country with Lord 
Howard, governor of Virginia from 1684 to 1688. Colonel 
Townley married Lady Elizabeth Carteret, widow of Sir 
Philip Carteret, first governor of the province of New Jersey. 
Mrs. Mallery survives her husband, but there were no 
children. 
At an early period in Colonel Mallerv’s career he became 
much interested in the Indian tribes with which he came in 
contact. His early reading had somewhat led him to the 
study of ethnology, and it was fortunate for himself and for 
the rising science of anthropology that he eagerly devoted 
himself to the researches offered by his surroundings. The 
ingenious Indian system of communication by signs and 
gestures attracted his attention, and he began to make a 
careful notification of them. This natural^ led to the par¬ 
allel investigation of their pictographs on rocks, skins, and 
bark, and he collected a large quantity of transcriptions of 
