Henry Roger Jones

At the start of the war he was studying the law with Judge Silas Bryan* in Salem, IL. He returned to Connecticut and enlisted on 3 September 1861 and mustered as First Sergeant of Company C, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant on 5 June 1862.

He was wounded in the right shoulder (or chest) and captured in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, and paroled the same day.

He was discharged for disability on 17 January 1863. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant and Adjutant of the 11th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps on 16 July 1864 and promoted to First Lieutenant on 11 November. He was promoted again, to Captain of Company I, 20th Regiment, VRC on 30 April 1865 and discharged on 30 June 1865.

He was commissioned First Lieutenant, 43rd United States Infantry on 28 July 1866 and transferred to the First US Infantry on 8 April 1869. In 1870 he was posted to Fort Brady, Sault Ste. Marie, MI, and he retired on 28 June 1878 (promoted to Captain, retired, in April 1904).

He returned to New Hartford, Litchfield County, CT and founded the Tribune there in 1880, which he published to 1906, then turned over to his son H. Roger Jones, Jr.

His service from the Record 1 and Heitman.2 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870-1900, and his Memorium from the Loyal Legion (1912), also quoted below. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah Lucia Chesebrough (1842-1931) in December 1863 and they had 7 children.

For forty years he carried in his shoulder the bullet he received at Antietam, when it worked out of his body.

03/23/1837; New Hartford, CT

07/20/1912; Hartford, CT; burial in North Village Cemetery, New Hartford, CT