Background
Samuel Jones was born on December 17, 1819, in Powhatan County, Virginia, United States. He was the son of Samuel and Ann Moseley Jones.
West Point, New York, United States
Jones graduated nineteenth in a class of fifty-two from the United States Military Academy in 1841.
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Samuel Jones was born on December 17, 1819, in Powhatan County, Virginia, United States. He was the son of Samuel and Ann Moseley Jones.
Jones graduated nineteenth in a class of fifty-two from the United States Military Academy in 1841.
Samuel Jones began his military career in the army on the Maine frontier from 1841 to 1843 and on the Florida frontier from 1845 to 1846.
From 1846 to 1851, he was an assistant professor of mathematics and instructor of infantry and artillery at West Point. Promoted to captain in 1853, he served in New Orleans and Texas until 1858, when he was named assistant judge advocate for the United States Army, stationed in Washington, D.C. He resigned his commission in April 1861 and volunteered for service in the Confederate Army. At the battle of First Manassas, he was General P.G.T. Beauregard’s chief of artillery.
Promoted to brigadier general on July 21, 1861, in January 1862 he relieved General Braxton Bragg as commander at Pensacola. On March 10, 1863, he was promoted to major general in command of the Department of Alabama and West Florida. In September 1862, he commanded Thomas Hindman’s Division at Corinth, Mississippi, and was also given the departmental command for east Tennessee.
Jones refused to send reinforcements to Braxton Bragg in Kentucky because he believed the request unnecessary. As a consequence, he was transferred to the Department of West Virginia, which he defended from December 1862 until March 1864. He was relieved of his command after losing the confidence of both Virginia lawmakers and General Robert E. Lee.
He then succeeded Beauregard as head of the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida until January 1865. He surrendered at the war’s end and was paroled in Tallahassee in May 1865. From 1866 to 1880, Jones farmed in Mattoax, Virginia.
From 1873 to 1875, Jones served as president of the Maryland Agricultural College (now University of Maryland, College Park).
From the marriage to Julia Rush Read, Samuel had two children: Emily Read and Fannie Callaway Jones.