The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-09
GEN. MALONE DEAD.
Officers and Soldiers OF His brigade
to Bear His Body to the Grave.

to Bear His Body to the Grave.
Washington, Oct. Seen. William Ma
hone died at Chamberlain's hotel at
O'Clock this afternoon. from the effects of
a paralytic stroke sustained last Mon
day, Sept. 80. He had been totally IN
conscious for more than forty-eight hours
previous 10 his death, and passed away
seemingly without pain. Mrs. Malone,
Butler and William Malone, Jr., his sons
Mrs. Ollie Gill, his daughter, L. L. Maury
of southampton county Virginia, a
nephew, and Capt. Rogers, secretary of
the Virginia state republican committee,
and former secretary to Gen Malone,
were at the bedside when the end came.
The arrangements for the funeral We're
made soon after Gen. Malone died. The
remains VIII be taken to Petersburg, Va,
by train, leaving Washington at 4:3O
o clock tomorrow morning. Services will
be held at 5 o'clock tomorrow evening
at st. Pauls Episcopal church at Peters
burg, and the body will then be taken to
the place Of interment. The honorary
pall-bearers will be officers of Mahone's
brigade, and the body bearers viii be sol
diers who served in that organization.
Gen. Malone was paying one of his
frequent visits to Washington when he
was paralyzed last Monday. He was part
ly conscious and able 70 take nourshment
until Sunday morning last. From that
time until his death he did not open his
eyes and was unable TO take any nourish-
ment.
The following officers of Gen. Mahone's
old brigade and members of Gen. A Z.
Hill Camp Confederate Veterans, all OF
Petersburg, will be the honorary pail
bearers.
Maj. ]. Arthur Johnston. Judge Dowry
A. Hinton, Gen. Sittith Boiling, Capt. l..
A. Goodwin, Capt. John r, Patterson,
Capt, Asa Rogers, Col. E. NJ. Field and
ers will be the following privates who
Barner, ]. Z. Spottswood. j. r. Turner,
l. 7
Whitehorn, Alexander Wilson and r. X.
Gee.
William Malone was born in South
ampton county, Virginia, in 1926. His pa
rents were from Ireland. Both of his
grandfathers served With distinction in
the war of 1872 His father commanded
regiment Of militia in the MAT Turner
insurrection.' The senior Malone edu-
Gated his son himself, with the exception
that he went tc school for about two
years. He was graduated from the Vir-
ginia Military Institute in 1877 and taught
school for two years at the RappahannOck
Military academy. While at the academy
young Malone studied civil engineering
and finally became chief engineer and
constructor of the Norfolk and Peters
burg railroad. At the outbreak of the
civil war he joined the confederate army
and was commissioned lieutenant colonel
of Virginia volunteers. Shortly therear-
ter he became colonel of the Sixth Vir-
ginia infantry. He was present at the
capture of the Norfolk navy yard in 1861
He participated in most of the battles
of the peninsular campaign, those on the
Rappahannock and those around Peters
burg. At the latter place he won the
sobriquet of the hero of the crater" for
his splendid bravery at the time
of the explosion of Grants
mine underneath Lees outworks, on July
30 1854 He was known as a brave and
daring fighter throughout the war. Gen
Lee held him in high esteem CONSIDERING
his ability to rank hardly second to that
of any commander in the service with the
exception of Stonewall Jackson He was
commissioned brigadier general in
March, 1864, and major general in Au-
gust of the same year, for distinguished
services around Petersburg. Afterward
he commanded division in Ambrose =.
Hill 8 corps. Had MahoneS career ended
with the close of the war, he would have
lived in history as one of the most ad-
mired and respected of the commanders
of the southern armies. But he lost in
politics much of the admiration which he
won in war. At the Termination of the war
he entered the railroad business again.
and soon took leading part in politics
He was at first democrat, and worked
party. But failing to secure for himself
the office of United States senator, he or
ganized the readjuster party, founded
upon the conditional reputation of the
state debt, and was by that party elected
to the senate in 1880, serving until 1887
He tried for a second term in the senate,
but was defeated. He became as active
as the leader of the Republican party as
he had been once as the leader of the
of the party organization. fractional quar-
rels, however, broke his power. For sew
eral years prior to his death he had not
been active in politics.