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John William was born on September 25, 1836 at Louisa Court House, Virginia, United States, son of Col. Francis William and Ann Pendleton (Ashby) Jones.
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John William was born on September 25, 1836 at Louisa Court House, Virginia, United States, son of Col. Francis William and Ann Pendleton (Ashby) Jones.
After preliminary training in Louisa and Orange county academies he attended the University of Virginia, where he helped support himself by teaching school, and upon his graduation entered the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
In 1860 Jones was ordained to the Baptist ministry. Soon after his ordination he was appointed a missionary to China, but the political disturbances of the time delayed his departure and when Virginia seceded he enlisted as a private in A. P. Hill's 13th Virginia Regiment. He was with the Confederate troops from Harper's Ferry to the end of the war and won the sobriquet of "the fighting parson, " serving in the ranks for a year, then as chaplain of the regiment, and after November 1863, as missionary chaplain to Hill's corps.
The history of the famous revival services which swept through Lee's army during the winter of 1862-63, in which Jones played a major part, he has recorded fully in his valuable although somewhat discursive volumes, Christ in the Camp (1887), and the briefer "Morale of the Confederate Army, " in C. A. Evans' Confederate Military History (1899).
After the war he became pastor of the Baptist church of Lexington, Virginia, where as one of the chaplains of Washington College he was thrown into frequent contact with Gen. Robert E. Lee. His admiration for his former chief subsequently led him to write two separate biographies, Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee (1874), and Life and Letters of Robert Edward Lee (1906), which are important for their sympathetic portrayal of the Southern leader's character and for their detailed picture of his closing years.
A few months after Lee's death Jones resigned his pastorate to become agent for the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville; later he held various other church offices, filled pastorates in Ashland, Virginia, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, did occasional teaching, and for four years represented his denomination as resident chaplain of the University of Virginia.
In his latter years failing health compelled him to retire from the ministry, but until his death, while visiting in Columbus, Georgia, he continued writing, lecturing, and laboring in various ways to keep alive interest in the history of the Confederacy. He died in 1909.
John William Jones enjoyed a considerable sectional reputation as an author and as a lecturer on the Civil War, although his ability in exhausting known sources and uncovering fresh data was undoubtedly more pronounced than his purely creative gift. In his writtings he preserved accurate historical data of the Civil War period and perpetuated the ideals which the Confederacy represented. He was secretary of the Southern Historical Society, editing during that period fourteen volumes of its papers and helping to procure for the society a mass of invaluable source material on Confederate and Southern history.
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Jones was an able, devoted, and eloquent servant of his church. He had sturdy figure and benevolent bearded face.
On December 20, 1860, Jones married Judith Page Helm. They had five children. Four of their sons became Baptist ministers.
