To break hold of the resurgent Democratic Party in the Solid South, Garfield cautiously gave senatorial patronage privilege to Virginia Senator William Mahone of the biracial independent Readjuster Party.

Gen. William Mahone.

Gen. William Mahone.

Gen. William Mahone, gathered as many troops together as they could for a counterattack.

After the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), William Mahone, a civil engineer and hero of the Battle of the Crater, was the driving force in the linkage of 3 railroads, including the V & T, across the southern tier of Virginia to form the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad ( AM & O ), a new line extending from Norfolk to Bristol, Virginia in 1870.

William Mahone ( 1826 – 1895 ), a railroad builder and U. S. Senator, was born in the tiny community of Monroe, which was located on the Nottoway River about south of present-day Courtland.

William Mahone became a Major General in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, while Otelia Mahone served as a nurse in Richmond.

A large portion of U. S. Route 460 between Petersburg and Suffolk is named in honor of General William Mahone.

After the Civil War, under the leadership of former Confederate General William " Billy " Mahone, the Southside Railroad was rebuilt, and in 1870, was combined with the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad and the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad to form Mahone's Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad ( AM & O ), which stretched 400 miles across the southern tier of Virginia from Norfolk on Hampton Roads to Bristol.

* William Mahone, 19th century railroad builder, Confederate General ( hero of the Battle of the Crater ), and politician was the mayor of Petersburg, where he and his wife Otelia Butler Mahone made their home for many years.

In 1847, after being a member of the first graduating class of Virginia Military Institute ( VMI ), William " Little Billy " Mahone ( 1826 – 1895 ) of Southampton County began teaching at Rappahannock Academy in Caroline County.

The town was also the boyhood home of Confederate Major General William Mahone, whose father, Fielding Mahone, ran a tavern.

General George H. Thomas, " Rock of Chickamauga ", and a native of Southampton County, was a Union general and graduate of the United States Military Academy, likely visited his uncle James Rochelle, clerk of court for Southampton County, located just three houses away from Mahone's Tavern, home of William Mahone.

Popular legend has it that William Mahone ( 1826 – 1895 ), builder of the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad ( now Norfolk Southern ), and his cultured wife, Otelia Butler Mahone ( 1837 – 1911 ), traveled along the newly completed Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad naming stations.

William Mahone became a Major General in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, and later, a Senator in the United States Congress.

The Confederate forces did in fact take over the shipyard, and did so without armed conflict through an elaborate ruse orchestrated by civilian railroad builder William Mahone ( then President of the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad and soon to become a famous Confederate officer ).

Following the American Civil War, William Mahone ( 1826 – 1895 ) of Petersburg, Virginia was the driving force in 1870 to combine the Norfolk and Petersburg, South Side and the Virginia & Tennessee railroads to form the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad ( AM & O ).

For the next seven years, he attended Virginia schools including Rappahannock Academy where his teachers included eventual U. S. Senator William Mahone.

: 1883-1887: William Mahone ( RA / R-VA )

Popular legend has it that Otelia and William Mahone traveled along the newly completed Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad naming stations along the tangent between Suffolk and Petersburg from Ivanhoe a book she was reading written by Sir Walter Scott.

From him it has descended continuously, through fifteen individuals, the title being increased to an Earldom in 1784 ; and in 1876 William Nevill 5th Earl ( b. 1826 ), ( d. 1915 ) an indefatigable and powerful supporter of the Tory Party, was created 1st Marquess of Abergavenny.

Ugolino della Gherardesca | Ugolino and his sons in their cell, as painted by William Blake circa 1826.

According to William Burt, in his notes to Dartmoor, a Descriptive Poem by N. T. Carrington ( 1826 ), the original tomb consisted of a pedestal of three steps, the lowest of which was built of four stones each six feet long and twelve inches square.

His father, William Ford ( 1826 – 1905 ), was born in County Cork, Ireland, of a family originally from western England, who were among migrants to Ireland as the English created plantations.

* Lytle, William Haines ( 1826 – 1863 ), Antony and Cleopatra

The four panels depict: The Preservation of Captain Smith by Pocahontas ( 1825 ) by Antonio Capellano, The Landing of the Pilgrims ( 1825 ) and The Conflict of Daniel Boone and the Indians ( 1826 – 27 ) by Enrico Causici, and William Penn ’ s Treaty with the Indians ( 1827 ) by Nicholas Gevelot.

This key episode was the mysterious disappearance, in 1826, of William Morgan ( 1774-1826?

* Photograph of Alfred Laroque, a Canadian Papal Zouave, taken at Montreal, Quebec in 1868 by William Notman ( 1826 – 1891 ), housed in the McCord Museum in Montreal.

Between 1824 and 1826 he lived and worked in Scarborough, and was responsible for the building of the Rotunda, a geological museum devoted to the Yorkshire coast. The Rotunda was re-opened as ' Rotunda – The William Smith Museum of Geology ', on 9 May 2008 by Lord Oxburgh, however, the Prince of Wales visited the Rotunda as early as 14 September 2007 to view the progress of the refurbishment of this listed building.

* William Hugh Smith ( 1826 – 1899 ), Governor of Alabama ( 1868 – 1870 )

* William R. Smith ( Mormon ) ( 1826 – 1894 ), member of the Utah Territory House of Representatives

* William R. Smith ( Mormon ) ( 1826 – 1894 ), Mormon leader in Davis County, Utah Territory

The first Western artist who interlocked lengthy writing with specific images was most likely William Blake ( 1757 – 1826 ).

The cape at Point Hope was renamed by Captain Frederick William Beechey of the Royal Navy, who wrote on August 2, 1826: " I named it Point Hope in compliment to Sir William Johnstone Hope ".

William Ruddick was also in this area when the treaty was signed in 1826.

John Stewart Harbison was born the third child of William and Margaret ( Curry ) Harbison, on a farm near Freedom, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, on September 29, 1826.

( From the Illinois Valley Cultural Heritage Association website ) William Shelton, a ranger from Ft. Russell, Edwardsville, chose the alcove at the mouth of Hurricane Creek ( creek at Eldred also called Hurricane ), in 1826, to build a cabin.

The first settler at the site was Richard Williams who erected a cabin as early as 1826, several years before the town was laid out, with the first house erected after Jacksonville's platting belonging to William Guilliams.

* William Griffith ( 1766 – 1826 ), judge who served on the United States circuit court and was Mayor from 1824-1826.

* William Griffith ( 1766 – 1826 ), judge who served on the United States circuit court.

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Marcus Peck ; 1825 – 1826, William F. Averill ; 1827 – 1833, Marcus Peck ; 1834, Peter F. Westervelt ; 1835 – 1837, John I. Vosburgh ; 1838 – 1839 ; John H. Gregory ; 1840, Calvin Sliter ; 1841, John H. Gregory ; 1842 – 1843, Solomon Coons ; 1844, Reuben A. Thomas ; 1845, S. V. R. Cole ; 1846, David Fonda ; 1847, David Luce ; 1848, Lorenzo M. Lown ; 1849 – 1850, William L. Stewart, jr .; 1851, Jacob Boyce ; 1852, W. H. Wicks ; 1853, Joseph Alden ; 1854, William H. Lyons ; 1855, Samuel D. Seymour ; 1856, Harmon Westfall ; 1857, George Sliter ; 1858, Albert H. Dutcher ; 1859 – 1861, George Sliter ; 1862, D. E. Barnes ; 1863, William H. Ford ; 1864, B. M. Wilkinson ; 1865, Jeffrey P. Thomas ; 1866 – 1867, David Horton ;