Friday, September 14, 2012

John B. Jones


John B. Jones served in the late war three and a half years, enlisting in the Fifteenth Iowa Infantry, with which he participated in the battle of Shiloh. He was discharged on account of disability, but re-enlisted in the Twenty-ninth Iowa Infantry, taking part in all the battles and campaigns in which his regiment participated.

SOURCE: Abstracted from the biographical sketch of his father, John A. Jones, in Biographical and Historical Record of Clarke County, Iowa, Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1886 p. 342

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