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Federal (USV)

Private

Joseph J. Jones, Jr.

(c. 1843 - 1864)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Windsor, he enlisted as a Private in Company B, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 7 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in his calf in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864 and was a prisoner at Andersonville, GA. He died there on 2 September 1864.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Wound detail from a casualty list in the Hartford Courant of 23 September 1862. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Nancy Jane Holmes (1840-1868) in October 1859 in Hartford and they had a daughter Carrie (1862-1942).

Birth

c. 1843; Simsbury, CT

Death

09/02/1864; Andersonville, GA; burial in Andersonville National Cemetery, Andersonville National Historic Site, GA

Notes

1 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, pp. 643 - 663 [AotW citation 5426]

2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pg. 623 [AotW citation 27017]

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