William Mahone, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

William Mahone

American civil war general and politician

Date of Birth: 01-Dec-1826

Place of Birth: Southampton County, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 08-Oct-1895

Profession: politician, civil engineer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

William Mahone (December 1, 1826 – October 8, 1895) was an American civil engineer, railroad executive, Confederate States Army general, and Virginia politician. As a young man, Mahone was prominent in the building of Virginia's roads and railroads.
As chief engineer of the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, he built log-foundations under the routes in the Great Dismal Swamp in southeast tidewater Virginia that are still intact today.
According to local tradition, several new railroad towns were named after the novels of Sir Walter Scott, a favorite British/Scottish author of Mahone's wife Otelia. In the American Civil War, Mahone was pro-secession and served as a general in the southern Confederate States Army.
He was best known for regaining the initiative at the late war siege of Petersburg, Virginia while Southern troops were in shock after a huge mine/load of black powder kegs was exploded beneath them by tunnel digging former coal miner Union Army troops resulting in the Battle of the Crater in July 1864; his counter-attack turned the engagement into a disastrous Union defeat. After the war, he returned to railroad building, merging three lines to form the important Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad (AM&O), headquartered in Lynchburg.
He also led the Readjuster Party, a temporary state political party with a coalition of freemen blacks, Republicans and populist Democrats, and was elected by the commonwealth General Assembly to the U.S.
Senate in 1881.



Description	American photographer, war photographer, photojournalist and journalist
Date of birth/death	18 May 1822	15 January 1896
Location of birth/death	Warren County	Manhattan
Work period	from 1844 until circa 1887 date QS:P,+1887-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location	New York City, Washington, D.C.
Authority control	: Q187850 VIAF: 22965552 ISNI: 0000 0001 2209 4376 ULAN: 500126201 LCCN: n81140569 NAID: 10570155 WorldCat



Alternative names	Levin C. Handy
Description	American photographer
Date of birth/death	10 August 1855	26 March 1932 / 23 March 1932
Location of birth/death	Washington, D.C.	Washington, D.C.
Authority control	: Q12033170 VIAF: 58349202 ISNI: 0000 0000 3167 288X LCCN: n96077991 Open Library: OL6939460A WorldCat