JONES, David Rumph

Confederate

Born: April 5 1825, Orangeburg Dist. SC

Died: January 15 1863, Richmond VA

Pre-War Profession: Graduated West Point 1846, Mexican War, garrison duty, instructor at West Point, adjutant general's dept, resigned February1861.

War Service: 1861 Maj. and chief of staff to P G T Beauregard, Fort Sumter, June 1861 Brig. Gen. in Provisional Army, First Manassas, commanded a division under Magruder in the Peninsula campaign, Seven Days, commanded Jones' Divn/Longstreet's Corps at Second Manassas, fought well at Thoroughfare Gap, South Mountain, Sharpsburg, September 1862 Maj. Gen.

Post War: Jones died in Richmond, Virginia of heart disease.