SEATED VIEW OF VMI GRADUATE & TWICE WOUNDED ALABAMA OFFICER WHO SERVED ON GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON’S STAFF AND CARRIED FLAG OF TRUCE AT APPOMATTOX

SEATED VIEW OF VMI GRADUATE & TWICE WOUNDED ALABAMA OFFICER WHO SERVED ON GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON’S STAFF AND CARRIED FLAG OF TRUCE AT APPOMATTOX

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CDV is a seated view of Thomas G. Jones as a 1st lieutenant. He wears a medium- colored double-breasted frockcoat with lighter collar and cuffs. The rank of a 1st lieutenant is clearly visible on his collar. He also wears dark trousers with a thin light leg stripe and his sword belt with rectangular eagle plate and cradles a Model 1860 cavalry saber between his knees. Bottom of the mount is signed in period ink “THOS. G. JONES.”

Clarity is good but the contrast is light. The photographer used a pencil to darken Jones mustache and collar rank. Paper and mount are becoming toned.

Reverse is blank but for a period ink ID at bottom that reads “THOS. G. JONES” along with some collector information in pencil.

Image is from the collection of the late William A. Turner.

Thomas Goode Jones was born in Macon, Georgia on November 26, 1844 but the family later moved to Montgomery, Alabama.

In May of 1862 young Jones entered the Virginia Military Institute but left his studies and went to Richmond to act as a drillmaster. He enlisted as 1st sergeant of Company K, 53rd Alabama Partisan Rangers on November 1, 1862 and on the recommendation of General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson he was commissioned a 1st lieutenant and Aide-de-Camp to General John Gordon on January 15, 1863. He eventually rose to the rank of major.

During his service Jones was wounded twice, once at Spotsylvania on May 12, 1864 and again at Kernstown on November 11, 1864. At Appomattox he was chosen by General Gordon to carry the flag of truce to the Union lines. He surrendered with the Army of Northern Virginia and took the Oath of Allegiance on April 11, 1865.

After the war he finished his education and began a profession in the law in 1868 in Montgomery, Alabama. He was the editor of the Montgomery Daily Picayune and was a Reporter of Decisions for the Supreme Court of Alabama from 1870-1880, a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from 1884 to 1888 serving as Speaker from 1886 to 188 and was Governor of the state from 1890 to 1894.

Jones died in Montgomery on April 28, 1914 and is buried there in Oakwood Cemetery.  [ad][ph:L]

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