Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-10-11

ion Of this road he was made its president and
occupied that position at the opening of the
war between the States.
HIS WAR RECORD.
Immediately on the secession of Virginia.
Malone was appointed by the Virginia
Council chief quartermaster of the Virginia
forces. This position he held for about ten
days, when he resigned, and was appointed
lieutenantcolonel and assigned to the COM
mand of the post at Burwell Bay. but before
he accepted this position. he was made col
onel Of the Sixth Virginia Infantry
Some months later, Col onel Malone was
appointed brigadier-g general, receiving his
commission from the Confederate States Gov
eminent, and was placed in command of the
troops Of the Norfolk district of the Depart
ment of Norfolk, and so continued until the
evacuation of the department.. in May 1862.
From 1861, to 1864, General Mahone's con-
tinued in command of what was known as
Mahone's Brigade, of which the Sixth,
Twelfth, and Forty-irst Virginia regiments,
were always members, and which up to some
time in 1862 embraced also the Third Ala
bama Regiment, and later, after the Alabama
regiment, was transferred to another brigade
the Sixty-frst Virginia Regiment was added
in its place.
General Malone, having received disabl-
ing wound in the battle of Second Manassas,
was not with his command again until just
before the battle of Fredericksburg. In May,
1868. General Malone was elected member
of the State Senate, bnt did not take his seat
IN this body until January 1864, and then
onlyfOr few days.
When General Longstreet was wounded in
the battle of the Wilderness, ON the 9th Of
Nav 1864, General r. H. Anderson was
placed in command of his corps, and General
Malone in command of Andersons Division,
brigades Mahone's (Virginia) Wright's
Georgia., Hanes (MississippD, Saunders
alabama, and Berrys (Florida).
This division General Malone continued to
command until the surrender at AppomattOx
Court House, securing few days after the
battle of the Crater bis commission as major
generaI, dating from that famous engagement
DULY 80, 1864. After the battle of the Will
derness he was rendered the appointment OF
major general. with temporary rank, but this
he respectfully declined.
When the war closed, General Malone s
many brilliant achievements as military
commander had won him great fame. He had,
to the credit of his reputation as fighter, the
battle of the Crater the battle OF J ohnson's
7 Farm CD the 22d of June, 1864, and the dash
upon the enemys rear at Aiken's Farm on
the evening OF August 18, 1864, actions in
which were captured an aggregate OF over
5000 prisoners. the Federal forces having been
struck telling blows in each battle.
At Appomattox Court House, his and
Fields division were the only two organized
divisions in the Confederate arms. During
the winter Of 1s645, the people Of Petersburg
| in recognition of his military services, pres
| ented him with sword.
ARAILRoAD ORGANIZER.
| The war over, General MahoEe again turned
his attention to the business of railroading.
He was elected president of the Southside
! railroad, running from Petersburg to Lynch
| burg, and also of the Virginia and TENNESSEE
railroad, running from Lynchburg to Bristol
| and soon succeeded in consolidating the two
railroads with the Norfolk and Petersburg
Railroad (of which he had been president fol
several years.. and organizing the Atlantic
Mississippi & Ohio road. He became Presi
dent of the consolidated road, which Office HI
held until the road was sold in 1881.
| Although the road was under financial diff
| fculties from the beginning, its management
created new era in railroading in the South /,
and at the time Of its sale and REORGANIZATION
into the Norfolk and Western, was celebrated
| for its elegant road bed and excellent equip
ment.
All during these years General Malone wa!
potential in the shaping of public affairs, apt
quietly, though powerfully, used the inAuen-
/ 1es given By the power invested in him a:
tionin the South.
| HIS POLITICAL RECORD
1t was while in the height Of his railroad
power that he took an active hand in politics
and was prominent in withdrawing the Greg
ular" Democratic State ticket of 1863. anG
| substituting for 1t the ''True Republican
ticket headed by Gilbert s. Walker.
! He was largely instrumental in having
Gen. Kemper nominated for Governor, but
quarreled with him after he was in office
| The Readjuster split in the Democratic party
made it possible in 1879 for Republican
Readiuster coalition with Gen. Malone al
| the head to carry the legislature, which was
| done, and in 1880 Gen. Mahone was elected
| U. S, Senator The Republican administra.
| tion threw all the patronage into his hands
| and it $50 strengthened the party that in 1881
| it carried the State for Governor. Gen
| Malone affiliated with the Republicans on
| taxing his seat in the Senate, and has contin
| ued to do SO ever since.
At one time 1t was thought he was wealthy
| and probably he would have been if all his
| speculations had prospered, but many OF
them collapsed, he became involved in law
suits with his partners. and Of late years, it is
said. nearly all the property in the family
| was that of Mrs Malone.
|. WITT.