Person:Alfred Jones (12)

1850 Pittsburgh, Ward 4, Allegheny Co, PA, 29 July 1850, p219 h/h 154/166 Jones, Solomon 50 NY druggist Martha 48 MD Addison 12 PA Alfred 5 PA Hill, Samuel 20 PA druggist Richlman, Eliza 20 Germany (probably servant)

1860 Lawrenceville, Allegheny Co, PA 14 July 1860 p28 R1061 Jones, Martha 59 PA widow Addison 22 PA Alfred 16 PA

32nd Infantry 1st Brigade 1st Division 3rd Corps Co E - corporal Alfred H. Jones This information appears on a bronze plaque on the Pennsylvania Memorial Monument at Gettysburg. It contains the names of a number of West Deer citizens at the time.

Publication Number: T289 Publication Title: Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900. Publisher: NARA State: Pennsylvania Arm Of Service: Infantry Regiment: 63 Company: E Name: Jones, Alfred H. Rank: Corpl. Date: 11-JAN-1916 State/arm Of Service: Pa. Inf. Company/regiment: E, 63 Roll Number: 469 Collection Title: Civil War Pensions ~

Company B recruited at Pittsburgh - Alfred H. Jones was 20Y at enrollment, 5’6” grey eyes, fair complexion; captured 6-22-64 at Petersburg, SC; released 12-13-64 at Charleston, SC..pos Castle Pinckney, Confederate Prison; Alfred H. Jones Private date of Muster - 1 Aug 1861 for 3 years; absent, wounded, at muster out; Prisoner from June 22 to December 13, 1864; discharged December 19, 1864

The first Union Army prisoners of war arrived in Charleston following the First Battle of Manassas and were held in Castle Pinckney in the lower casements. After the prisoners were removed, the fort was strengthened with earthen embankments and additional mortars and Columbiads on the barbette tier. After the Civil War, the fort was modernized for possible use during the Spanish-American War but again was not needed. Some sources suggest that the fort never fired a single hostile shot during its lengthy existence. Parts of the old brick walls and casemates were dismantled in 1890 to make way for a harbor lighthouse, which operated into the 20th Century. Castle Pinckney was declared a U.S. National Monument in 1924 by presidential proclamation. In 1951, Congress passed a bill to abolish Castle Pinckney National Monument and transferred it back to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A local Sons of Confederate Veterans fraternal post took over management and care of the island in the late 1960s and attempted to preserve it and establish a museum. Eventually, unable to raise the needed funds, the SCV allowed the fort to revert to state ownership. Castle Pinckney has recently undergone some limited restoration efforts. Due its location on an isolated shoal in the middle of the harbor, access is limited, if not nonexistent, and maintenance near impossible. It is gradually being reclaimed by nature.

Castle Pinckney was one of the Civil War's first POW camps and one of the few not remembered as a "death camp" The first prisoners were captured at the 1st Battle of Bull Run. Make shift barracks were created for the prisoners. Notwithstanding the fact that it WAS a prison, Castle Pinckney inmates experienced comfortable and clean conditions. There are no existing records of prison escapes from Castle Pinckney and prison life within it's walls was relatively peaceful.

Fascinating Fact: The "Castle Pinckney Brotherhood", created by the prisoners with the aid of the Confederate guards, established rules for prison life and made provisions for prison entertainment. Organized in the early part of August, 1861. Company B was composed of what was known as the Collier Guards, of Sharpsburg, a military organization which had done considerable drilling previous to enlistment, and a couple of squads of men from Deer Creek and Fairview, under command of Wm. S. Kirkwood, of the latter place. The first commissioned officers were Captain Wm. S. Kirkwood, afterward promoted to major, lieutenant colonel and colonel, and who died June 25, 1863, from wounds received at Chancellorsville. First Lieutenant, Timothy L. Maynard, a school principal, who lost his life at Kelly's Ford, on November 7, 1862.

Second Lieutenant, Samuel P. Taylor, who resigned on June 5, 1862. First Sergeant was Henry Hurst.

About the middle of August the company was placed in Camp Wilkins, the old fair grounds in Pittsburgh, where it remained until August 26th, when, with a number of others, it left the camp on a beautiful evening, marked down Liberty street, Pittsburgh, and embarked on cars and amid cheers of citizens and tearful farewells of friends and relatives, they left home for the front. The company arrived at Washington on August 28th and camped a short distance outside the city limits.

Their first camp was known as Camp Sprague. On September 28th they crossed the Potomac and, landing at Alexandria, marched about two miles out the Leesburg Pike, where they encamped at what was known as Camp Shields.

On October 14th they again moved, going across Hunting Creek to the farm of James Mason, on the Mount Vernon Road, and went into winter quarters at Camp Johnston, where they remained until March 17, 1862, when they embarked on transports for Fortress Monroe, where they began the memorable Peninsula campaign.

Company B made for itself a reputation of which it may feel justly proud. Only two of its officers resigned during its three years of service, and one of them only do so when he found that he was unable any longer to serve on account of the severe wound he received in battle, and which had rendered him unfit for any active service. Only four men deserted, and two of them were conscripts. The company was celebrated for its good discipline and the friendly feeling existing between the officers and private soldiers. Very seldom were the officers compelled to punish any of the men for dereliction of duty.

Source: Gilbert Adams Hays, Captain. Under the Red Patch: Story of the Sixty-third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1864. Published by the 63d Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment Association. Pittsburg: Market Review Publishing Company, 1908.

1870 Allegheny City, 2nd Ward, Allegheny Co, Pa 24 June 1870 p117 h/h 746/790 Jones, Alfred 25 PA retail merchant, Rebecca 24 PA, Adda 3 PA, Martha 68 PA,

1880 Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co, OH Federal Census, Dist 21, SD 6 ED 21, 1 June 1880, p126D 20 Portland Street h/h 27/27 Jones, Alfred H 36 PA-NY-PA Rebecca W 35 PA-PA-VA Addoh V 13 PA Edward M 9 PA Jones, Martha 78 PA-PA-MD mother

Manual and directory of Smithfield Street ME Church for 1888, p7 Tract Distributors - Mrs. Alfred H. Jones p6 Class Leader - Alfred H Jones

1900 Pittsburgh 14th Ward, Allegheny Co, PA 2 June 1900 p77 R1361, District 204 Alfred H. Jones was the census enumerator 264 Fisk St h/h 17/18 Jones, Alfred H. Jan 1844 (56) PA-NY-MD m34Y 2/2ch advertising agent, rents home Rebecca W. Dec 1844 (55) PA-PA-OH Alford, Adah B. Mar 1867 (33) wid car accountant PA-PA-PA Irene A. Oct 1894 (5) PA-PA-PA Roland E. July 1896 (3) PA-PA-PA Hawkins, James S. May 1860 (40) wid 1/1ch glass packer PA-MD-OH Heyer, Pauline Jan 1882 (18) Germ servant here 1899 Hartwick, Louis M. May 1874 (26) mechanical draftsman OH-PA-PA roomer McGiffin, Mathew W. Sept 1870 (29) PA-PA-PA medical student roomer

Alfred was CW veteran of 63rd PA Infantry Co B; he entered and mustered out as a private

Pittsburgh Press, Monday, 27 May 1907, p4

Alfred H. Jones aged 63 years, a veteran of the Civil War, died yesterday at his residence, 264 Fisk Street. He was born at Liberty Avenue and Wood Street in 1844 and received his education in the public school of this city. In 1861 he moved to Lawrenceville, in which district he lived the greater part of his life. At the age of 16 he enlisted in Company B 63rd Regiment, PA Volunteers under the late General Alexander Hayes who at that time was colonel of the regiment. He participated in many enagements from Yorktown on the Virginia Peninsula to Chacellorsville where he was wounded in the right arm. He was a member of Post #41 GAR and one of its past commanders. He was also a member of Progressive Lodge #15, Ancient Order of the Mystic Chain.

Pittsburgh Gazette Times, Tuesday, 28 May 1907, p6

On Sunday, 26 May 1907 at 5:45 AM Alfred H. Jones, husband of Rebecca Jones, died in his 64th year. Funeral services at his late residence, 264 Fisk Street, on Tuesday, 28 May at 2:30 PM.

Alfred filed for a pension on 31 May 1869 Invalid application #144.008 Widow application 870.676 170 Co 2 Batt WP C

1.   The Civil War Pension Record for Alfred H. Jones states he was 20 years old when he enlisted; his obituary states he was 16 years old.