Thaddeus, a West Point Graduate, served as a colonel in the 1907 Battle of San Juan.
He advocated for including African American soldiers in artillery companies, noting their bravery and low levels of desertion. His gravestone does not indicate it, but Thaddeus was a Colonel in US Army as noted above.
Thaddeus W. Jones: Forty years in the Cavalry, most of it on the western frontier; fought Indians in the West and Spaniards in Cuba, and served briefly in the Philippines during the insurgency. (source: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Army/USMA/Cullums_Register/Classes/1872.html)
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He advocated for including African American soldiers in artillery companies, noting their bravery and low levels of desertion. His gravestone does not indicate it, but Thaddeus was a Colonel in US Army as noted above.
Thaddeus W. Jones: Forty years in the Cavalry, most of it on the western frontier; fought Indians in the West and Spaniards in Cuba, and served briefly in the Philippines during the insurgency. (source: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Army/USMA/Cullums_Register/Classes/1872.html)
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Thaddeus, a West Point Graduate, served as a colonel in the 1907 Battle of San Juan.
He advocated for including African American soldiers in artillery companies, noting their bravery and low levels of desertion. His gravestone does not indicate it, but Thaddeus was a Colonel in US Army as noted above.
Thaddeus W. Jones: Forty years in the Cavalry, most of it on the western frontier; fought Indians in the West and Spaniards in Cuba, and served briefly in the Philippines during the insurgency. (source: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Army/USMA/Cullums_Register/Classes/1872.html)
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He advocated for including African American soldiers in artillery companies, noting their bravery and low levels of desertion. His gravestone does not indicate it, but Thaddeus was a Colonel in US Army as noted above.
Thaddeus W. Jones: Forty years in the Cavalry, most of it on the western frontier; fought Indians in the West and Spaniards in Cuba, and served briefly in the Philippines during the insurgency. (source: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Army/USMA/Cullums_Register/Classes/1872.html)
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