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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 10: (search)
te pride excites a generous emulation in the army, which is of inappreciable value in its effect on the spirits of the troops. I therefore recommend that Capt. William E. Jones, who now commands the strongest troop in the regiment and one which is not surpassed in discipline and spirit by any in the army, be made colonel. He is s major-general, of a cavalry division in the same army, and in 1898 a famous consulgen-eral of the United States and a major-general in its army in the Cuban war. Jones became colonel, later brigadier-general of cavalry, and fell on the battlefield. General Longstreet, who was in command of the advanced Confederate forces, repo Stuart received his promotion as brigadier-general of cavalry. His brigade, as nearly as can be ascertained, consisted of the First Virginia cavalry, under Col. W. E. Jones; the Second Virginia cavalry, under Col. R. C. W. Radford; the Fourth Virginia cavalry, under Col. B. H. Robertson; the Sixth Virginia cavalry, under Col. C.
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
Crawford, where he was reinforced by Vaughn, and W. E. Jones took command, to meet with serious defeat at Pieddford Springs, Va., July 31, 1887. Brigadier-General William E. Jones Brigadier-General William E. JonesBrigadier-General William E. Jones was born near Glade Spring, Washington county, Va., in May, 1824. He was educated at Emory and Henry collegemended that Stuart be given brigade command and that Jones, skillful, brave and zealous in a very high degree, soners. During the advance of Lee into Pennsylvania, Jones, who had been pronounced by Stuart the best outpost orary command of the brigade, and on October 9th General Jones was ordered to report for duty in southwest Virgs reverse at that point immediately afterward; Gen. W. E. Jones was killed, and Staunton was occupied by the F As colonel of the Eleventh Virginia cavalry, in W. E. Jones' brigade, he participated in the raid in West Virnd was organized the Seventh cavalry regiment, Col. W. E. Jones; the Twelfth regiment, Col. A. W. Harman; and