James Thomas Jones

Going by Thomas, in 1860 he was a 21 year old laborer living with his parents and 5 younger siblings on the family's small farm at Mount Olive in Duplin County, NC. He enlisted in Goldsboro, NC on 20 June 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 2nd North Carolina Infantry on 21 August at Camp Mason in Wayne County.

He was captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October 1862, when he was sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was officially exchanged on 10 November and returned to duty. He was promoted to First Corporal on 1 March 1863 and to 5th Sergeant on 1 May 1863. He was 3rd Sergeant by 19 September 1864 when he was captured again, at Winchester, VA and he was a prisoner at Point Lookout from 24 September until he made an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released on 28 June 1865.

By 1880 he was farming his own place at Glisson in Duplin County.

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a colored solar enlargement offered for sale on ebay in 2025; thanks to John Banks for the pointer to that.

He married the widow Catherine Ann Summerlin Herring (1841-1917) in November 1865 and they had 10 children, 8 boys, 2 girls.

03/09/1840; Duplin County, NC

09/02/1887; Duplin County, NC; burial in Hughes Cemetery, Duplin County, NC