The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-10-17
GEN. MALONE Is DEAD,
THE NOTED VIRGINIA WARRIOR
AND POLITICIAN.
MiSfOrtuneS that Followed His Clos.
ing DayS-HOw He Lost Political
Power and Fortune.

MiSfOrtIneS that Followed His Clos.
ing Days-How He Lost Political
Power and Fortune.
Gen. William Malone, of Virginia
| died ou the Sth inst. at Chamberlain :
Hotcl, Washington, d. G.. He was
| stricken with paralysis October lst
and gradually grew weaker, losing
consciousness the day before his death
The end came peacefully and almost
| imperccptibly.
Gen. William Malone was born in
Southampton County, Virginia, in
1926, and comes Of fighting stock. His
father and grandfather, who were
Irishmcn, we're noted as soldiers, his
grandfather serving with distinction
in the war of 1872 and his father COM
manding q militia regiment in the Nat
Turner inSurrcctiOn.
William Malone was tutored by his
father until he entered the Military
Institute, from which he graduated
in 1917. Until the outbreak of the
civil war he was q civil engineer, and
at that time engaged in that capacity
in the Norfolk and Petersburg rail
road. He joined the Confederate
army and was commissioned licuten-
ant-coloncl Of the Virginia Volunteers.
He was promoted to colonel of the
Sixth Virginia Infantry. Hc was
present at the capture Of the Norfolk
navy yard in April, 1861, participated
in mos" Of the battles of the pcninsu.
lar campaign, those on the Ruppahan-
mock, and those around Peters burg,
where he won the sobriquct of the
Hero Of the Crater" for his splendid
bravery at the time Of the explosion at
Grants Mine, underneath Lees out
iS hnf Il
Lee held him in the highest esteem
and as Il brigadier commander inferior
only to Stoncwall Jackson.
General MahOnc vas commissioned
brigadier-gencral in March, 1864, anu
ma jOr. general in August, for diStin-
gulshed services around Petersburg
AfterWard he commanded Il division in
Ambrose +. HIPS corps, and when Lee
surrendered was at Bermuda Hundred.
At the termination of the war Ma
hone devoted himself to railroad mat
tors, and became president Of tho Nor
folk and Tennessee railroad Later
he took an active interest in politics
and endeavored but failed TO secure
the nomination for Governor of Vir-
ginia in 1878.
He became the leader of the read
juster party, and was elected United
SGubcS 'oeudIOf III lSSU. nc served
until 1886 and was defeated at the
polls.
The Washington correspondent of
Tho Chicago Times Herald in O. letter
written ~ few days ago about Gen. Ma
homo and his misfortu nos said His is
q familiar figure here, Jith his frilled
shirt. .bosdrn and cnifs, his gray souch
hat, his wOmanlike feet in the dain-
tiest Of fine boots. This man, cx-
Senator William Mahone, of Virginia,
is the finest example OF martyrdom to
his party to be found in all the land
President Andrews, in the current
number Of Scribncr's, tells most inter
cstingly q part OF the Malone story,
but the most vividly dramatic part of
it has never been in print. President
Andrews latest chapter Of the history
Of the last quarter century gives an
account of Mahono's appearance in the
United States Senate in 1881. The
historian does well to say that Malone