Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-10-12
Sketch of General Malone

| Gen. William Malone was born at
Monroe, Southampton county, Va,
December I, 1926, was educated at the
/ Virginia Military Institute, from
which he graduated in 1S47, taught
school for two years and then began
the duties of his profession as a civil
engineer as surveyor on the Orange
and Alexandria Railroad. Suisse
ouently he became successfully the
chief engineer of the Fredericksburg
and Orange Plankroad and chief en-
| gineer OF the Norfolk and Petersburg
Railroad. Upon the completion of
! the aforementioned road he was elect
ed president of the company, which
position he held at the beginning of
of the war. Immediately on the
secession of Virginia the subject of
| this sketch was appointed by the
Virginia Council chief quarter
master of the Virginia forces. This
position he held for about ten days.
when he resigned and was appointed
| lieutenant colonel of infantry and
assigned to the command of the post
at Burwell's Bay, but before he ac-
cepted this position was made colonel
| of the Sixth Virginia Infantry. Some
months later Colonel Malone was APP
pointed brigadier general, receiving
| his commission from the Confederate
States governmentandp placed in com
mand of the troops of the Norfolk
district of the department of Norfolk
and so continued until the evacua
| ton of the department in May, 1862
| From 1861 to 1864 General Malone
continued in command of what was
known as Mahone's Brigade, of which
the Sixth, Twelfth, Sixteenth and
Forty-first Virginia regiments were
always members and which up to
some time in 1862 embraced also the
Third Alabama Regiment, and after
the aforementioned regiment was
transferred to another brigade had
another regiment, the Sixty first
Virginia, added in its place. Receiv
ing disabling wound in the battle
of Second Manassas, he was not with
his command again until just before
the battle of Fredericksburg. In
May, 1868. General Malone was elect
ed member of the State Senate
| but did not take his seat in this body
until January. 1864, and then only
for few days. When General Long
street was wounded in the battle OF
the Wilderness, on the 9th of May,
1864, Gen. R. H. Anderson was placed
in command of his corps and General
Malone in command Of Anderson's
division, which was composed of five
| risades-General Mahone's, (Vir-
giuia) Wright's, (Georgia,) Harris's
(Mississippi) Saunders, (Alabama,)
and Perry's, (Florida,) This division
General Malone continued to com
mand until the surrender at APP
pomattoX Court House, receiving a
few days after the Battle of the
Crater his commission as major
general, dating from that famous ca
gagement, July 80. 1864. After the
battle of the Wilderness he was ten
dered the appointment of major
general, with temporary rank, bat
this he respectfully declined.
When the war closed General
Nahone's many brilliant achieve
ments as military commander had
brought him great fame. His name
was fast becoming tower of
strength. He had to his credit the
battle of the Crater. the battle of
Johnson's farm, on the 22d of June,
1864, and the dash upon the enemy
rear at Alken's farm, on the evening
of August 10, 1864, an action in which
ne bagged an aggregate of over 5000
prisoners and struck the Federal
| forces telling blows.
During the winter of 1S64-5 the
people of Petersburg, in recognition
of his great services, presented him
with a sword, the venerable David
May making the presentation speech
ut Chester, near which place Ma
homes division was occupying the
trenches. The war over, General
EMahone again turned his attention
/ to the business of railroading, was
lelected pr@69ent of the SouDhside
Railroad an $50 Of the Yirgipea and
glroad. and sodE sue
sceeded in consolidating these two /
railroads with the Norfolk and
Petersburg Railroad, (of which last
mentioned road he had been presi
dent for several years. and organic
ing the Atlantic, Mississippi and |
Ohio Railroad, of which he became
president, which office he held until
the road was sold IN 1881. In 1879 lie
was elected to seat in the Senate of
the United States and served as q
member of that dody from March,
1881, to March. 1887. In 1889 he was
a candidate for Governor as the re-
publican nominee, but was defeated |
by Hon. P. w. Mckinney.