Jones Frank Jones

From Buford's Bridge in the Barnwell District, he enlisted as Private, Company G, 17th South Carolina Infantry on 2 January 1862.

He was listed as missing in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862 and was wounded there by a buckshot though his left hand.

He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA in September and October 1862 and was unfit for further field service. Colonel McMaster commented on his application for discharge:

Hd Qr 17th Ref S.C.
Nov 2nd 1863

Approved and respectfully forwarded -
I made two applications for the discharge of Private Jones last Spring but failed to procure it.

His hand was badly mutilated at Boonsboro Sep 14th 1862 and he has since been an inconvenience to the Regiment. I know him to be a good & faithful soldier anxious to serve his country and hope he will not be compelled to ___ out a miserable existence in camp unable even to attend to his own personal comforts, much less to benefit the service.

F.W. McMaster
Col 17th Reg S.C

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 with his status at "Boonsboro" from Colonel McMaster's list for the 17th South Carolina (Confederate States Army Casualty Lists and Narrative Reports, RG 109, NARA), both online from fold3.

c. 1827; Barnwell District, SC