Name: JONES, JOHN E.
Rank: 3rd Lieutenant, Promoted To 1st Lieutenant, 1862/03/06, Promoted To Captain, 1863/09/02 at Fredericksburg
Enlisted: 3 July 1861 at Westville, Dale County, age 21
Service History: Present: Winchester, 1862/05/25; Cross Keys, 1862/06/08; Malvern Hill, 1862/07/02; Cedar Mt., 1862/08/09; Fredericksburg, 1862/12/13; Suffolk, 1863/05/03; Gettysburg,1862/07/02 & 03; Battle Mount, 1863/07/23. Absent Sick: Cold Harbor, 1862/06/20; Hazel River, 1862/08/23; Manassas Junction, 1862/08/27; Manassas Plains, 1862/08/28-30; Chantilly, 1862/09/01; Harpers Ferry, 1862/09/13; Sharpsburg, 1862/09/17; Shepardstown, 1862/09/18. Severely Wounded: Chickamauga, 1863/09/19. Absent Wounded: Chickamauga, 1863/09/20; Raccoon Mt., 1862/10/27; Lookout Valley, 1862/10/28. Absent Furlough: Camel Station, 1863/11/16; Knoxville, 1863/11/20 & 29; Dandridge, 1864/01/16; Wilderness, 1864/05/06; Spotyslvania,1864/05/08 & 12; Cold Harbor, 1864/06/03; Chester Station, 1864/06/17; Deep Bottom, 1864/08/14; Fussell Mill, 1864/08/16. Discharged for disability 10 September 1864, Petersburg, Virginia
Date of Birth: abt 1840	Place of Birth: Alabama
Date of Death:	Place of Death:
Buried:
Father: John Edmund Elbert Jones (b 6 January 1802 in Darlington, South Carolina, d 28 August 1879 in Geneva County, Alabama)
Mother: Elizabeth // (second wife)
Spouse(s): Single at time of enlistment
Children:
Occupation: "A railroad employee" (Oates); farmer; teacher
Residence(s): Resided in South Carolina after the war, in connection with the Southern Railroad
Other: Tentative identification based on 1860 Census, Coffee County Pct 1: John E. Jones, 60, Physician, b South Carolina, wife Elizabeth 48, children William Z. 23, James W. 22, John E. 19, Malinda 17, Caroline 15, Seaborn C. 11, Catherine 8, Liddy A. 5; also in household is Jackson A. Albirson, School Teacher.
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Submitter: Georgia V. Fleming	E-mail: hyacinth@ala.net