Robert M. Jones

He enlisted in Tuskegee as a Private in Company C, 3rd Alabama Infantry on 27 April 1861. He was promoted to 4th Corporal on 12 September 1861 but was listed as a Private on records of the Maryland Campaign and after.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his foot in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.

He was paroled near Sharpsburg, MD on 21 September 1862 but was held at Fort McHenry in Baltimore to at least 6 November. He was furloughed home to Cross Keys, AL by the end of December. He was detailed "by General Lee" as a shoemaker in early 1863 and as a tailor in Richmond, VA, from 10 April to at least October 1863. A medical board of July 1863 recommended he remain on detail due to his South Mountain wound. He was a clerk in the CS Clothing Bureau at the depot in Richmond by January 1864 and through at least November of that year. He was issued clothing in December 1864, the latest record in his file.

His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. His wounding from a casualty list for Rodes' Brigade in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser of 8 October 1862. His picture from a full-length standing photograph now at the Library of Congress thanks to Tom Liljenquist.

There's a card in his CMSR jacket for a Russell Jones, same Company, which says he died on 15 September 1864 in Mobile, AL. It's not clear if this is the same man.