History of Glade Spring, (Washington County) Virginia United States of America

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William Edmondson Jones, soldier, was born near Glade Spring, Va., in May, 1824. He was graduated from Emory and Henry college, Va., in 1846, and from the U.S. Military academy in 1848. He was assigned to the mounted rifles and served on the frontier until Jan. 26, 1857, when he resigned and took up farming at his native place. Upon the breaking out of the civil war he enlisted in the Confederate army and was made captain in Col. J. E. B. Stuart's 1st Virginia cavalry, John S. Mosby being a private in his company. Captain Jones was advanced rapidly, becoming colonel of the regiment, Sept. 28, 1861, and brigadier-general, Sept. 19, 1862. He commanded the Department of the Valley of Virginia in the winter of 1862-63. When General Lee organized the Army of Northern Virginia for the invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania, making the cavalry, the select troops of the Confederacy, into a division commanded by Maj.-Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, the six brigades were placed under command of Generals Hampton, Robertson, Fitzhugh Lee, A. G. Jenkins, W. E. Jones and W. H. F. Lee. General Jones took part in the battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, and he was made major-general after that battle. He had charge of the Department of Southwest Virginia and Eastern Tennessee in 1863, where he afforded protection to the Confederate salt works. He was ordered to the relief of the army at Lynchburg, threatened by General Hunter in June, 1864. During an engagement with the forces of General Hunter he was killed near Piedmont, Augusta county, Va., June 5, 1864.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Glade Spring, (Washington County) Virginia

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