General William Mahone signed Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad Co - $100 Bond - C for Sale

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General William Mahone signed Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad Co - $100 Bond - C:
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General William Mahone signs this $500 or $100 Norfolk & Petersburg Railroad Bond of Virginia dated 1867 as President. Mahone's signature is dark and bold. Another great addition to any Southern or Confederate collection. Excellent Condition. Please specify what denomination you desire. 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 Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.