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Capt. / Lt. Col. Jesse S Jones
(1832-Dec 7,
1864)
of the
The Jones Plantation
Colleton County South Carolina
By Randy R Jones
Parents
were: John S
Jones & Elizabeth Broxton
From:
The Jones
Plantation & The Broxton Plantation
Lodge,
Colleton County, South
Carolina
A
Descendant of
Thomas Jones of WALES
(1727-1761)
4Jesse S. Jones
entered into the
Civil War, Capt / 4Jesse S Jones with:
The
(CSA)
24TH Infantry Regiment of
South Carolina Volunteers, Co. E.
Nicknamed: The
Colleton Guard.
He was assigned
to “The Gist
Brigade” under General States Rights Gist
His commanding
officer was Colonel
Ellison Capers., (Capers later promoted to General.) NOTE: Both General
Gist
and Capers are buried at
The Trinity
Episcopal Church
across from the State House in Columbia,
SC.
Lt
Col 4Jesse S Jones preformed
his patriotic
duties with great conviction and southern pride. The 24th
and 16th
Regiments of SC., often combined there units in several war campaigns.
4Jesse S
fought for the Confederacy from the time the 24th was formed until his
death December 7th
1864 in The
Battle of Franklin, Tennessee and he was wounded once at Chickamauga.
His campaigns
included Charleston,
SC., James Island, North Carolina, Mississippi,
Atlanta, Georgia,
and Franklin, Tennesee.
The
Beauregard Flags
On
April 20th1863 at James
Island,
SC. General Beauregard reviewed the 24th and 16th
and
awarded them both Battle Flags. Known as ‘‘The Beauregard Flags’’ both
are Charleston
Depot Colors. Never allowing their flags to be captured, both units
would carry
their colors until the end of the war. These Flags hang today in the
Relic Room
in Columbia, SC., home of
the South
Carolina Soldiers of the Confederacy. Lt.
Col. Jesse S Jones assumed command of the 24th Regiment on July 31, 1864.
Cited:
By Colonel
Ellison Capers
From Palmetto,
Georgia to Franklin,
Tennessee The 24th
and 16th
combined forces to embark on a 500 mile march for The Tennessee
Campaign. The men suffered much during
November from bad
weather and the want of clothing, shoes and blankets. Food was rationed
and
many times there was nothing to eat but meal. Despite all of these
hardships no
man deserted the flag of his regiment. And no command of the army
fought with more
spirit and heroic determination at Franklin
than the
24th
South Carolina
Volunteers.
Lt. Col. Jesse
S Jones under
heavy engagement of the enemy, pressed back there advancing forces.
Leading his
Regiment up front and to the right he was shot and fell mortally
wounded. Lt.
Col. Jesse S Jones died of his wound at a division hospital a few days
after the
battle. His loss will be much felt by the regiment and is greatly
deplored by
his Colonel. Signed, Colonel Ellison Capers.
The
Battle
at Franklin, Tennessee.
After a long,
bloody, and hard
fought battle, late into the night The 24th Regiment of
South Carolina
did in fact charge the enemy, capturing the colors of The Ohio 97th
Regiment
Infantry and forty prisoners.
Buried:
Lt Col Jesse S
Jones was buried
in The McGavock Confederate Cemetery on the Carnton Plantation, just
outside of
Franklin Tennessee.
To this day, on
record his
government believes him to be buried there.
However after
his death his
personal slave gathered up all of his possessions and traveled back
across
enemy lines to there home in Lodge South Carolina
to convey the awful news of his death. Shortly thereafter the war
ended. Two of
his brother, one being my 3rd Great Grandfather Robert Edgar
Jones
Sr. and the other brother, not clear which one took the slave with them
on a
journey back to Franklin Tenneesee to bring back their deceased
brother.
Without permission from anyone the two brothers exhumed their brother’s
remains
and traveled back to South Carolina.
Lt Jesse S
Jones is buried with
the rest of his family at the Cross
Swamp Cemetery
in Colleton Co. SC.
Sources:
The Battle
of Franklin.
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Square/3873/gist.html
Colleton
County SC
History & Genealogy.
http://www.oldplaces.org/colleton/index.html
Book:
Cemeteries of Upper Colleton
County
South Carolina”
Books: Enlisted
for the War, The Struggles
of the Gallant 24th South Carolina.
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