Capt. Jones, of Fort Henry

Among the prisoners captured at Fort Henry was one Captain G. R. G. Jones. We learn that this rebel captain is the son of Hon. Geo. W. Jones, formerly of Dubuque, Iowa, now of Fort Lafayette. The Dubuque Herald says that it doubts if ever Capt. Jones’ family knew that he was in the rebel army! Nonsense, didn’t the rebel Jones in his letter state that he had a son in the Southern army? We are under that impression, and also that the public give him the discredit of having two sons there. We presume young Jones will be sent to sympathize with his father at Fort Lafayette. And unfortunate family, those Joneses.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 13, 1862, p. 2