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(c. 1845 - 1862)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A Baptist minister's son, in 1860 he was a 15 year old living with his parents and siblings in Montevallo, Shelby County, AL. On 24 March 1862, an unmarried 17 year old student, he enlisted there and mustered as 2nd Sergeant of Company E, 44th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
A "brave and gallant soldier," he was mortally wounded in the knee and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His name is on a list of paroles at Sharpsburg dated 30 September. He died of wounds; his death date is not given in his military records, but was his death was known to his family by November 1862. His father Henry Martyn Jones (1820-1889) filed for his final pay of $149.75 in February 1863.
References & notes
His service from the State of Alabama,1 who say he was killed outright at Sharpsburg, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on a casualty list in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser of 8 October 1862, as R.F. Jones, wounded in the knee. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
Birth
c. 1845; Talladega County, AL
Death
1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /civilwar/soldier.cfm?id=106548 [AotW citation 25729]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31648]