Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-07-08
From the Hlllsborohsh r Recorder.
Captain Robin Ap. G. Jones.

iate cavalry nght at Brandy Station, near.
Culpepper Court House in Virginia. All
the proprieties Of friendship and of social
life, forbid that one as much loved aud es-
teemed, SO true q gentleman, SO gallant a
soldier, SO patriotic martyr in the cause.
of Southern liberty and independence,
should go down to his grave with simple
line announcing his heroic death. 1t well
became him to be soldier and martyr in
such cause, descended as he is from race
of men SO we'll known in the early history
Of North Carolina, who in the war Of the
Revolution, were active patriots from prin-
ciple, and in the organization Of f2the gov
ernment the leaders of their people; sue.
cessful and independent planters Of the
Roanoke, we'll and widely known for all that
is honorable and estimable ia public and
private life. Captain Jones was the great
grand son Of that we'll known gentleman,
Gen. Allen Jones, Of Halifax, N. g., and
the fourth son Of the late and lamented Col.
Cadwallader Jones, who, both on sea and
land, first as an officer Of the navy and af-
forwards in the army Of the United States,
had served his country most 7gallantly in
times of much peril, especially in the war
of 1872, and who for more than.thirty years;
made his residence on the Western borders
of our ancient village, ethe model gentle,
man of the old school,"
Thus descended, the subject of this
sketch was born at West Hill on the 18th
day of January, 1926 He passed his en-.
tire youth under the ever hospitable roof Of
his parents, and was prepared for College at
the Hillsborough Academy, bythat we'll
known scholar and instructor, W lillian j..
Bingham Entering the University at
Chapel Hill, be was graduated at an early
age id the class Of 1846, associated With,
his friends and class mates Judge Person,
of Wilmington, and Col. Thomas Rufdo, Of
Alamance. For q few years he yielded
himself to the charms of his happy home,
travel, and general reading Subsequent.
ly be was made most happy by his marriage
with Miss surah, the eldest daughter of
Gen. Lucius ]. Polk, of Maury county,
Tennessee. For season he made his home
with his venerated parents at West Hill.
whence he removed with his family and
settled on his paterual acres, on the CataW.
ba river, in York District, South Carolina,
intending to devote himself to the quiet
and secluded life of planter -
But his honored father falling into bad
health in the early part Of the ever memo:
rable year of 1861 and dying just about,
the opening Of our civil strife, he returned
with his gentle wife and little ones, and
made his home under the roof of his Hid.
owed mother, who hesso deeply loved and
thonored throughout his entire life, and who
now Ike David, weeping for her lost one,
exclaius, "Oh my son, would to God thatll
could have died for thee" 'tT.
Ou the first breaking out;ef the war with
the Northern abolitionists, his three elder
brothers, Col. Allen Jones, of Alabama,
Col. Cadgallader Jones, uf South Carolina,
and Capt. Pride Jones, of Orange, at. once
entered the service intheir respective States
whilst he remained at home in charge Of
the family and in care Of the estates II
was, however, we'll known with his friends,
that he felt oat ofpzacc at home in the
fmidstsof such a Revolution.
He was brave, but by no means reckless.
He had none Of that spirit that invites the
young and the ardent into the paths Of dan
ger athat they may be seen Of men," but
as Southern man with all the responsible.
tiles Of a. father, . citizen and property
holder, he desired to strike for his country
and its cause. In obedience to his early
trainings, he was willing and ready to meet
" our enemies who, with loud boasting OF
the power Of their armed men and mailed
ships, threatened uswith su6jugation, and
with evil Vaccinations sought, even ins our
own houses and at our own firesides, to per-
vert our man servants and our maid servants
into accomplices of their wicked designs"
And lust so soon as one of his brothers re-
turned from the service and relieved him
from the duties of home, he revisited his
late home in York District, s. c., and at
once raised volunteer company of cavalry,
of which he was with great propriety made
its Captain by the choice Of bis men. He
was soon ordered to the Swamp Districts Of
South Carolina, and for Observation-Disclosures
in disregard of health and comfort, kept
guard upon the lines below Charleston, the
hated and as yet unapproachable city
Strange to say, in this hard service and IN,
healthy district, though nursed in afauence
and ease, his health in no wise failed him.
Anxious to participate with bis couutrymen
in the fields made memorable by the skill
and courage of a Lee, Jackson and a
Stewart, he was transferred at his own re-
quest to Hampton's Legion. in the fall Of
1862 and from that time he has been con
stautly with his company in the LIST Regi'
ment of South Carolina cavalry, under the
command of Col. Black.
On Tuesday the 9th of this month, he
weDt into his first regular battle, unqueJ-
tionably the severest and most extensive
cavalry fight of the war; in which a COM
paratively inferior number Of Confederates,
under all the disadvantages Of an unfortu.
nate surprise, successfully repulsed and