The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-31

tions of the prairies produced wheat. rye. rice. yanns and corn to three times the capacity of a million people to con snme, while the surplus fattened for slaughter two hogs to the head of hu- man beings. There was no pauper class. The soul alive that failed to get three meals day was the victim of accident; suicide was a myth; divorce recognized yulgarity; lynching was unheard of.
 There was no commission to prescribe freight and passenger rates for common carriers. but the inland products of State made of Mobile the third in order of export cities of the United States and probably the richest city of 35,o0o people in the Union. Common carriers were owned by local capital entirely and in the decade 1S50-6O. railroad mileage in- creased from 125 in the beginning to 74S. There was no primary election. Can cidates for office paid no previlege tax; there was no petty campaign cry, "A free vote and a fair count"
 If we would build upon the deeds of this first reared generation of Ala bamians an immortal record to it's glory we must know the mind of it.
 Confederacy of Alabama Birth The Southern Confectionery was borr under the roof of the capitol of Ala bama. The place of birth was chosen by sister States because of the first .ilaims of Alabama tQ that honor. The confederacy was not revolution, but a development; not phantasm but the logical arrest of revolution; its written organic law the latest refinement of the American idea; it's aspirations, peace with all peoples. As the gov erning powers of the restored Union strive to conceive reforms best adapted to the Constituption of 17S7 and com mensurate with the spirit of the age they never move in their deliberations and conclusions, but to fall upon the ready clause in the Constitution of the Confederate States that was written to meet the anticipated emergency.
 Genealogy
 Jones, a corruption of John, Is fa- miliar to the Welsh tongue. It is a noticeable incident in American an- nals, how large a place the Welsh con tingent holds in the important colonial population. Prominent in this illus tration stands the blood of Jefferson Davis.
 Peter Jones, son of the Rev. Richard Jones. Welshman, who crossed over the line to a Devonshire parish, about 1920, came to Virginia later in that century to settle or look after a grant of 1900 acres of land possessed in right by his father in Prince George County. From that time forward the stock has made its mark In the annals of Vir- ginia
 Thomas Goode, first born of Samuel Goode Jones of Virginia, and his wife, Martha Ward Goode. first cousin to her husband was born at Vineville, now suburb of Macon, Ga, in the residence of MT. Whittle, a friend, on November 26, 1844 His mother was in ninth de- scent from Pocahontas.
 MT. Samuel c. Jones was a civil en- gineer of the first standing After i,, I Tennessee, he came to Montgomery in the spring of 1850 with his family and lived on the southeast corner of Law renee and Columbus streets He con tinued to build railroads, now in Ala bama and accumulated a large fortune. He was in the Legislature in 1872.
 The son, Thomas, was educated at private classical schools in Montgom- cry and in Virginia. He entered the West Point of the South, the Virginia Military Institute. in 1861, his seven teenth year.
 Enters the Army
 The more competent cadets were de- tailed to drill regiments of volunteers rendezvouing at Richmond Cadet Jones was so detailed. In the late win Ter Of 1862 General Stonewall Jackson was ordered to the Valley. Jones went with the corps of cadets that accom- panied that army. and participated in the world famous Valley Campaign
 When Jackson's army was recalled to the army of Northern Virginia, to participate in General Lees proposed assault upon Mcclellan, executed as the Seven Days" battles, the cadets who had not graduated were returned to the Institute to receive their peculiar dip lomas as honorary graduates; grad uated in the honors of field service in active war
 Thomas G. Jones returned to Mont gomery to be mounted and equipped by his father in the ranks of Capt. Felder's company of the Fifty-third Alabama Regiment Partisan Rangers, Col M. w Hannon, commanding. organized at Montgomery in November, 1862. Jones was promptly appointed orderly ser geant. of this Company, "K." The regiment was put in the field in two separate battalions as circumstances suggested. The battalion including Capt. Felder's company was sent to Mississippi to Gen. Van Dorn's division of cavalry, about 400O strong. In the Christmas Holiday, of 1868 General Van Dorn boldly marched to the rear of General Grant, out on his way to Mo bile, and destroyed 8. 1000 900 of his supplies, at Holly Springs which event defeated the scheme of the invader and turned him away back to Memphis, his base.
 Van Dorn later fought several fields in Tennessee. one of these hard bat tie at Thompsons Statioh March 5. 1883. There the command of the bat talion fell by accident of war to Or derly Sergeant Jones, for awhile at least He was wounded in the fighting. but kept the field. On March 25 Brent wood was fought. Both affairs were Van Dorn victories.
 Transferred to Virginia
 whether he failed to become at tached to the mounted service, in which ne nad already won a name, whether he aspired to do his fighting on the soil or the Virginia of his ancestors, where the loot of the invader pressed heavily. the course of his destiny turned thither. Attorney General Watts of the Cabinet. ms fathers friend and neighbor in Montgomery. recommended him to Brigadier General John B. Gordon A N V. May 1, 1863. the orderly ser geant of Company "K" Hannons Reg iment, changed his military Connection from comrades and commanders in the corps. known later as Wheeler's, Cav airy, to become First Lieutenant ana afde-de-camp to General Gordon. who proved to be a notable genius in war Jones was with Gordon when inc gen era1 offered to secure to General Lee on the night of July l, 1863, the posi- tion that gave General Meade the vic tory at Gettysburg: Jones was with him when he implored his superior, from the exposed right flank of Grant at the wilderness. the forenoon of Mav 6, 1864, to say the one word that would authorize him to mako a rear assault that would most inevitably double m Grants mighty host 10000 men unon