Benjamin Dunn Jones

From Providence, he was a student at Brown University (Class of 1864) when he enlisted on 5 September 1861 as Corporal in Company A, 4th Rhode Island Infantry. Promoted to Sergeant, date not given.

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

9 February 1864 he was discharged to accept a commission as 2nd Lieutenant, 11th United States Colored Heavy Artillery. He served as 2nd Lieutenant, Company I, 14th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (Colored) to date from 5 December 1863. He was acting adjutant, 3rd Battalion 10 January to 6 June 1865, then AAG and acting adjutant, Camp Parapet, LA, near New Orleans. He mustered out on 2 October 1865.

He moved to Omaha, Nebraska and was in business there until his death at about age 35.

Basic information from Dyer1. Details from the roster and a bio sketch in William H. Chenery's The Fourteenth Regiment Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (Colored) in the War ... (1898), also source of his photograph.

05/31/1840; Providence, RI

05/05/1875; Omaha, NE; burial in Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, RI