Daniel Smith Jones

Son of a prosperous carpenter, in 1860 he was a 17 year old student living with his parents and 8 younger siblings in Bowdon, Carroll County, GA. He enlisted on 30 July 1861 in Bowdon, GA and mustered as a Private in Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry Battalion.

He was captured in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was held at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then transferred to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 13 October then on furlough home to 15 November 1862. He was formally exchanged on 10 November and was wounded at Chancellorsville, VA in May 1863. He was elected Junior 2nd (3rd) Lieutenant in July 1863 and was captured again, at Front Royal, VA on 16 August 1864, briefly in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC, then sent back to Fort Delaware, arriving there on 29 August. He had been promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on the day of his capture. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States there on 17 June 1865 and was released.

In 1880 he was a farmer in Clayton County, GA but by 1900 was farming near Moody in St. Clair County, AL.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Nancy Eveline Morris (1842-1882) in April 1864 and they had 8 children. He married again, Mariah Josephine Mitchell (1843-1938) in June 1882 and they had 3 daughters.

12/07/1842; Clayton County, GA

05/30/1907; Moody, AL; burial in Moody Cemetery, Moody, AL