MEXICAN WAR

Maltby, Charles, 2^nd Lt., 4 Ill. Inf. (Ref. War with Mexico, Vol. II., p. 61, Hist. Reg.)

Maltby, Jasper Adalmorn.  Served as private and was severely wounded at Chapultepec.  (Vide Appleton’s Encyclopedia, Vol. IV., p. 185.)

Maltby, Theodore Dwight, born about 1816; married Mary Baylor in 1848 at New Orleans or Texas.  Died at New Orleans about 1870.  While residing in Boise, Idaho, the compiler knew Captain and Mrs. Ralph Bledsoe, the Captain was an old gentleman and is since deceased.  He knew intimately Theodore Dwight Maltby, a grand uncle of the compiler, and served with him in the Mexican War.  Capt Bledsoe always spoke of him as “Major Maltby” and recounted many interesting war experiences, and if I remember rightly they were in the battle of Chapultepec.  After the war, Major Maltby was for a time in partnership with Capt. Bledsoe and owned one of the first freighting outfits operating in that section of Idaho.  Major Maltby often stopped at the Bledsoe’s, who kept “open house,” and was, according to them, remarkably handsome, well educated, a brilliant conversationalist and of a pleasing personality.