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J.P.Jones
(1835 - 1864)
Home State: Maine
Education: State University of Michigan, Haverford College (PA)
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
Son of Quaker missionaries, he was Principal of the China Academy, a Quaker school in his hometown at the start of the War. He raised a Company and was Captain as it became Company B of the 7th Maine Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in action on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Major of the Regiment in 1863, and again wounded, at the Wilderness, VA in 1864. He was killed in action 12 July 1864 at Fort Stevens, Washington, DC.
References & notes
Basic information from Hyde1. Photograph here from one accompanying a feature on him at the Maine State Archives, source of further biographical details. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
05/21/1835; China, ME
Death
07/12/1864; Washington, DC; burial in Dudley Cemetery, China, ME
1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6611]