| Summary: | (Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general.) Graduated from West Point, 1841. Resigned his U.S. Army commission and was commissioned as a major in the Confederate Artillery in March 1861. Primarily a staff officer, Jones was promoted to brigadier general in May 1863. Major campaigns and battles include the Shenandoah Valley campaign, Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness. He was killed at the Battle of the Wilderness in May 1864. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 3. National Historical Society, 1991.
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