<p style="text-align:center"><strong>WILLIAM W. MACKALL</strong></p><p style="text-align:center"><strong>No. 898 · Class of 1837</strong></p><p style="text-align:center"><strong>Died August 19, 1891, at Langley, Virginia, aged 75 years.</strong></p><p>William W. Mackall was born in the District of Columbia and appointed Cadet from Maryland in 1833. He graduated number eight in the Class of 1837. He was assigned to the First Artillery and served in the Seminole war, being severely wounded in 1839. He was next on duty at a number of posts in Maine and New York until 1845; then for a year in Pensacola, Florida. He next served with credit in the Mexican War, being in nearly every engagement from Monterey to Chapultepec, where he was again wounded. For his services in this war he received the Brevets of Captain, for gallantry at Monterey, and of Major for his conduct at Contreras and Churubusco.</p><p>In December 1846, he was made an Assistant Adjutant General, serving as such with the divisions of General Butler and General North till the close of the Mexican War. From 1851 to 1853 he was Treasurer of the Soldiers Home, near Washington D. C. From 1853 to 1856 his duty was that of Assistant Adjutant General of the Eastern Division, and on special duty at Washington. From 1856 to May 1861, he was Assistant Adjutant-General, Department of the Pacific. He resigned in July 1861, having declined, on May 11, the appointment of Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General. He cast his fortunes with the Confederacy, but the Association has not been able to obtain a record of his services. After the war he retired to a farm near Langley, Virginia, a short distance from Washington, where he resided till his death.</p><p style="text-align:right">� Secretary of the Association</p><p style="text-align:center"><a href="https://usmalibrary.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/aogreunion/id/11268">Annual Report, June 9, 1892, pp. 16�17 · U.S. Military Academy Library</a></p>