Hilary Pollard Jones

From Hanover County, VA, he enrolled as First Lieutenant of the Morris Light Artillery on 19 August 1861. He was appointed Major and battalion commander on 28 May 1862.

He led the battalion in Maryland.

He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on 2 March 1863 and to Colonel on 27 February 1864, and was afterward Chief of Artillery of R.H. Anderson's Corps. He was paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 12 April 1865.

He lived in Taylorville, VA and was Principal of the Hanover Academy - a "teacher for 40 years."

His basic service from Gregory J. Macaluso's Morris, Orange, and King William Artillery (1991). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Claudia Hamilton Marshall (1839-1917) in 1861 and they had a son, Admiral Hillary Pollard Jones, USN (1863-1938).

See an excellent post about Jones and his artillery at Gettysburg on 1 July 1863 by Kristopher D. White on Emerging Civil War.

07/13/1833; Fauquier County, VA

1913; Washington, DC; burial in Leeds Episcopal Church Cemetery, Markham, VA