2pp, titled Report of Persons and Articles employed and hired at Fort Ewell, Texas, during the Month of July 1853, by Lieut. W.E. Jones, Rifles, Acting Assistant Quarter Master. Signed by Jones and countersigned by Captain Noah Newton, R.M.R. (Regiment of Mounted Rifles), Commanding Post. The report lists only one Juan Garcia employed for the month as a guide, owed $40. William Edmondson "Grumble" Jones (1824-1864) was a brigadier general of Confederate cavalry who was killed in action at the Battle of Piedmont. The son of a wealthy Virginia planter, Jones graduated from West Point, was commissioned a brevet second lieutenant in the U.S. Mounted Rifles, and dispatched to fight Indians in the recently annexed U.S. possessions in the West. The nickname "Grumble" was due to his surly demeanor, which was exacerbated by the death of wife in a shipwreck when the two were traveling to Texas in 1852 to serve at Fort Ewell. Jones retired in 1857 to return to tend to his plantation in Virginia, but quickly raised a company of Mounted Rifles following his home state's secession from the Union. His commands received considerable praise fighting under Generals J.E.B. Stuart and Joe Johnston, though his disposition frequently riled his colleagues and superiors. Robert E. Lee personally saved Lee from a court-martial by Stuart and reassigned him to the Shenandoah Valley, where he was killed by a bullet to the head while leading a charge into the superior forces of Union General David Hunter. Condition: Near-excellent.
2pp, titled Report of Persons and Articles employed and hired at Fort Ewell, Texas, during the Month of July 1853, by Lieut. W.E. Jones, Rifles, Acting Assistant Quarter Master. Signed by Jones and countersigned by Captain Noah Newton, R.M.R. (Regiment of Mounted Rifles), Commanding Post. The report lists only one Juan Garcia employed for the month as a guide, owed $40. William Edmondson "Grumble" Jones (1824-1864) was a brigadier general of Confederate cavalry who was killed in action at the Battle of Piedmont. The son of a wealthy Virginia planter, Jones graduated from West Point, was commissioned a brevet second lieutenant in the U.S. Mounted Rifles, and dispatched to fight Indians in the recently annexed U.S. possessions in the West. The nickname "Grumble" was due to his surly demeanor, which was exacerbated by the death of wife in a shipwreck when the two were traveling to Texas in 1852 to serve at Fort Ewell. Jones retired in 1857 to return to tend to his plantation in Virginia, but quickly raised a company of Mounted Rifles following his home state's secession from the Union. His commands received considerable praise fighting under Generals J.E.B. Stuart and Joe Johnston, though his disposition frequently riled his colleagues and superiors. Robert E. Lee personally saved Lee from a court-martial by Stuart and reassigned him to the Shenandoah Valley, where he was killed by a bullet to the head while leading a charge into the superior forces of Union General David Hunter. Condition: Near-excellent.
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