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

rades On the face was this tender in scription written:
 ..Gordon,s Brigade to it's A. D. c. for Valor and Heart" On the reverse side; "Bristoe. Cedar Creek, Hare's Hill
 'Valor" ''Heartl' The ideal Confed- crate soldier. an enthusiastic boyl
 Our traveller, paroled and thus decor ated, becomes a key to unlock to the in telligence of all time the deep laid mean ing of the Southern Confederacy, David, Prince of Israel, nor Philip Sydney stood for more than he.
 The revolution opened. The predicate of the soldiers paroles was broken--the sue cessor to the assassinated Lincoln invent ed policy. He offered a reward for Governor Watts, that put the governor to flight He of his own unjustified and arbi- trary policy appointed a lawyer of Tal- ladega, Lewis E. Parsons, Provisional Governor" The "state" described in the parole was utterly submerged in revolu- ton.
 Every vestige of that civil order that the parole contemplated was put away and all things animate and material were subordinated to Parsons and his will Par sons proved prudent and wise. His pru- dence and wisdom was all of security to life, liberty or property left to Alabama pafoled soldiers, and all else that re- mained upon the land with them. Par 
 ment by elections. and himself retired to privacy.
 Enters the Alabama Bar
 Major Jones had determined years be- fore to become lawyer. In pursuance of this expectation he had read law books by the camp fires. Now he entered the law office of MT. John A. Elmore the acknowledged head of tine Alabama bar. to continue his studies under that great Tx. ,pFf r, H,i Henry c. Semple and Capt. F.. J. F1tz- patrick, distinguished commanders of "Semples Battery" Army of Tennessee, partners of MT. Fillmore and gentlemen of the first standing. The pupils start in his profession was thus made most propitious. But he was not content with this opportunity. The Chief Justice of the State Hon. A. J. Walker. maintained law class and Major Jones entered as one of his pupils.
 The month of December, 1866, was made memorable to Major Jones by his sadmis- sion to practice law in the lower courts of the state, to which noviatiates were then restricted; by his marriage to the accomplished lady of his love, and by the sale of his first cotton crop at the then high record market prices, $50 per bale, raised on his own land.
 The bride was Miss Georgena Caroline, two years his junior, elder daughter then living in Montgomery, of Dr. Marshall Henry Bird of Arcola, Marengo County, and his wife Caroline sophia Moore The mother of the bride was descended from English colonists of the Cape Fear Re- zion, North Carolina. the Burgwyns, cul- tured people of large wealth. She was also related by blood to the Clitherall family of that state branch of which is honorably connected with Alabama an- nals.
 Thomas G. Jones and Hal T. Walker formed the young law firm of Jones &d Walker.
 The diary entry of the senior member explains an incident: January g, 1888. Admitted by Supreme Court as Attorney at Law and Solicitor in Chancery today. Committee of examination, John w. A.. Sanford, Attorney General; E. J. Fitz- patrick, Solicitor this district; w. A. Gunter, Esq.. and Chief Justice A. J.
 Four months later appears this other entry: 'May 9. Admitted to practice in the United States District Court before Richard Busteed, Judge (scoundreD. In- troduced by Gov. T. H. Watts and recon- mended by Gen. John T. Morgan"
 This lawyer was admitted. in 1876. to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States.
 The law business grew. The litigants. who brought fees, we're white merchants and white cotton planters. The revolu- tion was on. The lawyers were the polit- ical oracies. The lawyer here became known at once 6s young man of -pecu- liar daring in the hour of trial and ex- traordihAry power to speak in public
 A Cotton Planter
 Upon reaching home from the army Ma 1or Jones received from his father the gift of cotton plantation on Pintlala Creek. on tho Norman Bridge road. He employed an overseer on salary and made the customary visits of the planter in general supervision. The enterprise failed. ing peculiar to Jones in the fact. Planters Of the longest experience. residing on their plantations with their families. failed The crop of 1867 was marketed in the fall of that year fos. the ruinous prices of !. and cents: that of 1se6 the pre- oedlng year. had bean mafketed for 2 to