Marcus F. Wright's Civil War Bios -  General William Mahone

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                                   MAHONE
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   MAHONE, GEN. WILLIAM, born in Southampton County, Va., December 1,
   1826; died at Washington, D.C., October 8, 1895. Graduated at Virginia
   Military Institute in 1847, and until the beginning of the Civil War,
   engaged in engineering. He joined the Confederate army in 1861, took
   part in the capture of Norfolk Navy Yard in April of that year, raised
   and commanded the Sixth Virginia Regiment, was engaged in most of the
   battles of the peninsula campaign, those on the Rappahannock, and
   those around Petersburg. He was commissioned brigadier general in
   March, 1864, and major general in August of the same year. He
   subsequently led a division in Ambrose T. Hill's corps, and at Lee's
   surrender was at Bermuda Hundred.