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William Mahone (December 1, 1826 – October 8, 1895) was a Confederate States Army general, civil engineer, railroad executive, prominent Virginia Readjuster and ardent supporter of former slaves. [1] As a young man, Mahone was prominent in building Virginia 's roads and railroads.
William Mahone (born Dec. 1, 1826, Southampton County, Va., U.S.—died Oct. 8, 1895, Washington, D.C.) was an American railroad magnate and general of the Confederacy who led Virginia’s “Readjuster” reform movement from 1879 to 1882.
Jan 12, 2024 · A prominent Confederate officer, Major General William Mahone served in nearly all of the major campaigns and battles in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.
Dec 22, 2021 · William Mahone was a Confederate general, Virginia senator (1863–1865), railroad tycoon, U.S. senator (1881–1887), and leader of the short-lived Readjuster Party.
Sep 30, 2013 · On July 30, 1864 General William Mahone was engaged in a pitched battle outside of his hometown of Petersburg, Virginia.
Chapter Two argues that William Mahone’s leadership of the Readjuster Party, and its advocacy of universal male suffrage and economic reform, created a new political center in Virginia and demonstrates that the actions of both white and black people cannot be viewed as a monolith in the postwar era.
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William Mahone (1826-1895), American political leader and Confederate Army officer, led a movement of reformers in Virginia known as the Readjustors, with whose backing he won election to the U.S. Senate.
William Mahone was the President and Superintendent of the Norfolk & Petersburg Railroad before the Civil War. When the war began, he was appointed Colonel of the 6th Virginia Infantry and served in the Norfolk area of Virginia where he helped construct Confederate defenses before the Battle of Drewry's Bluff.
William Mahone (1826-1895) was a railroad president before the Civil War, a general in the Confederate Army, and afterward one of the most controversial of all Virginia political leaders.
With his right hand in his jacket, Confederate general William Mahone strikes a Napoleonic pose in this Civil War–era photograph. About five-and-a-half feet tall, and weighing around one hundred pounds, Mahone was "as small and lean as a starvation year," in historian Douglas Southall Freeman's memorable description.
