John Marshall Jones

John Marshall Jones (July 20, 1820 – May 5, 1864; aged 43) was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He fought at the Battle of Gettysburg and was killed in action at the Battle of the Wilderness. Jones was born in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Battles/wars	Utah War American Civil War Battle of Front Royal Seven Days Battles Second Battle of Bull Run Battle of Fredericksburg Battle of Chancellorsville Battle of Gettysburg Battle of the Wilderness †

BRIGADIER-GENERAL JOHN MARSHALL JONES. BY GILLIE MARSHALL HILL (1920).

General John Marshall Jones was the son of Colonel John Russell Jones and Gillie Marshall Jones. General Jones was born at Social Hall (now owned by Dr. J. F. Williams), Charlottesville, Virginia. He was a professor at West Point. When Virginia called her sons he promptly answered, and became Brigadier-General. He was killed at the battle of the Wilderness in 1864. His life-long friend and neighbor, J. Thompson Brown, was killed the same day at Locust Grove, Orange County. Their remains were brought to their old homes, which were opposite each other, and from there the two processions wended their way to Maplewood where, in opposite sections, their bodies at the same time were lowered into their last resting places.

In Colonel Jones' section at Maplewood the little memorial crosses mark the graves of five Confederate officers, namely:

• The above mentioned General John M. Jones;
• Lieutenant James L. Daniel, Company B, Nineteenth Regiment Virginia Volunteers, killed in battle near Richmond, 1862;
• Major T. T. Hill, Judge Advocate of his brother A. P. Hill's Corps ;
• Lieutenant Thomas Russell Hill, Lieutenant in Poague's Battalion; and
• Captain Walter Bowie, Captain in the Fortieth Regiment, Infantry, Virginia Volunteers.