1st Lt Abraham "Ham" Jones
Infantry Battalion, Company D
Abraham Jones was born in 1827 to John Anselm and Martha Jenkins Jones at Milledgeville, Ga. One of eight brothers, Abraham, or Ham as he was known to family and friends, had located in Polk County, Ga during the 1840s and become a farmer/planter. His older brothers, Seaborn and Augustus Robert (Bob) Jones lived nearby.
When war broke out in 1861, Seaborn organized an infantry company called the Polk Rifles and served as it's Captain.
Younger brother Abraham was the company's 2nd Lt.
The company travelled to Camp McDonald at Big Shanty in June 1861 to join the newly formed 4th Georgia State Brigade under command of State General William Phillips. Seaborn Jones was immediately elected Lt Colonel of the Brigade's Rifle Battalion, 1st Lt Henry F Wimberly took over as the Company Captain and thirty three year old Ham Jones moved up to 1st Lt.
His military record shows him killed in action on September 14th. His company, whittled down to only about 30 men by disease, exhaustion and straggling over the previous month, lost seventeen men in the vicious action.
The young, prosperous Lieutenant whose letters hint at his plans to marry and tell us that he would soon be back at his Polk County farm was no more.
The Confederate dead were hastily buried on the field on September 15th and the armies moved on to fight the great battle at Sharpsburg on the 17th.
In 1872 the state of Maryland disinterred the Confederate graves on South Mountain (those that could be located) and reinterred the remains in a mass grave at Washington Confederate Cemetery at Hagerstown, Maryland.
Sources; Written by:Kurt Graham
Infantry Battalion, Company D
Abraham Jones was born in 1827 to John Anselm and Martha Jenkins Jones at Milledgeville, Ga. One of eight brothers, Abraham, or Ham as he was known to family and friends, had located in Polk County, Ga during the 1840s and become a farmer/planter. His older brothers, Seaborn and Augustus Robert (Bob) Jones lived nearby.
When war broke out in 1861, Seaborn organized an infantry company called the Polk Rifles and served as it's Captain.
Younger brother Abraham was the company's 2nd Lt.
The company travelled to Camp McDonald at Big Shanty in June 1861 to join the newly formed 4th Georgia State Brigade under command of State General William Phillips. Seaborn Jones was immediately elected Lt Colonel of the Brigade's Rifle Battalion, 1st Lt Henry F Wimberly took over as the Company Captain and thirty three year old Ham Jones moved up to 1st Lt.
His military record shows him killed in action on September 14th. His company, whittled down to only about 30 men by disease, exhaustion and straggling over the previous month, lost seventeen men in the vicious action.
The young, prosperous Lieutenant whose letters hint at his plans to marry and tell us that he would soon be back at his Polk County farm was no more.
The Confederate dead were hastily buried on the field on September 15th and the armies moved on to fight the great battle at Sharpsburg on the 17th.
In 1872 the state of Maryland disinterred the Confederate graves on South Mountain (those that could be located) and reinterred the remains in a mass grave at Washington Confederate Cemetery at Hagerstown, Maryland.
Sources; Written by:Kurt Graham
1st Lt Abraham "Ham" Jones
Infantry Battalion, Company D
Abraham Jones was born in 1827 to John Anselm and Martha Jenkins Jones at Milledgeville, Ga. One of eight brothers, Abraham, or Ham as he was known to family and friends, had located in Polk County, Ga during the 1840s and become a farmer/planter. His older brothers, Seaborn and Augustus Robert (Bob) Jones lived nearby.
When war broke out in 1861, Seaborn organized an infantry company called the Polk Rifles and served as it's Captain.
Younger brother Abraham was the company's 2nd Lt.
The company travelled to Camp McDonald at Big Shanty in June 1861 to join the newly formed 4th Georgia State Brigade under command of State General William Phillips. Seaborn Jones was immediately elected Lt Colonel of the Brigade's Rifle Battalion, 1st Lt Henry F Wimberly took over as the Company Captain and thirty three year old Ham Jones moved up to 1st Lt.
His military record shows him killed in action on September 14th. His company, whittled down to only about 30 men by disease, exhaustion and straggling over the previous month, lost seventeen men in the vicious action.
The young, prosperous Lieutenant whose letters hint at his plans to marry and tell us that he would soon be back at his Polk County farm was no more.
The Confederate dead were hastily buried on the field on September 15th and the armies moved on to fight the great battle at Sharpsburg on the 17th.
In 1872 the state of Maryland disinterred the Confederate graves on South Mountain (those that could be located) and reinterred the remains in a mass grave at Washington Confederate Cemetery at Hagerstown, Maryland.
Sources; Written by:Kurt Graham
Infantry Battalion, Company D
Abraham Jones was born in 1827 to John Anselm and Martha Jenkins Jones at Milledgeville, Ga. One of eight brothers, Abraham, or Ham as he was known to family and friends, had located in Polk County, Ga during the 1840s and become a farmer/planter. His older brothers, Seaborn and Augustus Robert (Bob) Jones lived nearby.
When war broke out in 1861, Seaborn organized an infantry company called the Polk Rifles and served as it's Captain.
Younger brother Abraham was the company's 2nd Lt.
The company travelled to Camp McDonald at Big Shanty in June 1861 to join the newly formed 4th Georgia State Brigade under command of State General William Phillips. Seaborn Jones was immediately elected Lt Colonel of the Brigade's Rifle Battalion, 1st Lt Henry F Wimberly took over as the Company Captain and thirty three year old Ham Jones moved up to 1st Lt.
His military record shows him killed in action on September 14th. His company, whittled down to only about 30 men by disease, exhaustion and straggling over the previous month, lost seventeen men in the vicious action.
The young, prosperous Lieutenant whose letters hint at his plans to marry and tell us that he would soon be back at his Polk County farm was no more.
The Confederate dead were hastily buried on the field on September 15th and the armies moved on to fight the great battle at Sharpsburg on the 17th.
In 1872 the state of Maryland disinterred the Confederate graves on South Mountain (those that could be located) and reinterred the remains in a mass grave at Washington Confederate Cemetery at Hagerstown, Maryland.
Sources; Written by:Kurt Graham
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