Among the rebel officers captured at Fort Henry is a young man named Geo. R. G. Jones, who commanded an artillery company. He is a renegade Northerner, a resident of Dubuque, Iowa, and a son of Hon. George W. Jones, late Minister to Bogota, and now a prisoner at Fort Lafayette. The Fort Henry correspondent of the New York Times says the son is a young man who never did anything in particular, except to use a subsistence from the fortunes which his father earned, or rather gained from the people of Iowa; yet the moment the war broke out, he, together with a half dozen other fellows from Dubuque, bolted South, and offered his service to the rebel Government. He has always lived North, has been supported by the North, (through his father,) and turns against the country which has fed him at the very first opportunity to raise his hand against his patron and supporter. A large number of his townsmen are among the soldiers who captured him, and they became so indignant at finding this young ingrate at this place, ready to train his guns upon his former associates, that they discussed the propriety of shooting him. Wiser counsels, however, prevailed, and he is left to enjoy his infamy undisturbed. – Chicago Journal.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, February 21, 1862, p. 2
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