Person:Tighlman Jones (2)

Apparently named after Tighlman Ashurst HOWARD, a prominent Indiana politician of the time who d. of yellow fever in Texas, August 13, 1844. (See Bartlett ASHER in Wilene's EWING / HAYS Family File.)

1861 Dec. 20, Tighlman N. [sic] Jones, residence Hazel Dell, IL, enlisted as a Private in Co. F, 59th IL Infantry Regiment; promoted to full Sergeant; wounded; died of wounds, Dec. 25, 1864. --American Civil War Soldiers (Ancestry.com); IL Roster of Officers and Enlisted Men (IL Roster), published by ___, 1900. Also see http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/r100/059-f-in.htm

Today, Hazel Dell is in Crooked Creek Twp., Cumberland Co., IL, just 2 miles west of Clark County, and 2 miles north of Jasper County. Cumberland County's courthouse burned in 1885 destroying all records. However, Joel L. JONES and family lived in Grandville Twp., Jasper Co., IL.

TIGHLMAN "was a good-looking boy--above average in height for that time, with fair complexion and reddish brown hair. . . . He had discovered the satisfaction of hard work and the wonders of education. But he had also discovered that he was growing up, and that the neighbor girls were growing up and that the small community of Hazel Dell had a limited but interesting social life. And a boy couldn't court a girl without transportation.

  "JOEL JONES took great pride in his horses; he kept them in good condition and tried not to overwork them during the winter. . . .  When young TIGHLMAN asked for the horses one Sunday evening in December, he was refused.  A neighbor friend came by later in the evening in a wagon but with only one horse, and TIGHLMAN, in direct defiance of his father's orders, sneaked a horse from the barn and hitched it up with that of his friend. . . .  [The] next morning JOEL JONES . . . discovered that one of his horses had been out most of the night and he severely admonished TIGHLMAN for his disobedience. . . .  [TIGHLMAN] brooded for a while about his chastisement that morning and finally decided to declare his independence.  He filled his pockets with some of the apples that were always kept buried near the house and headed for St. Louis, and when JOEL JONES arrived home that evening he found a note from his son informing him that he had left home to join the army."  --Glenn W. Sunderland, Five Days to Glory (South Brunswick, NJ:  A.S. Barnes, 1970), 13-14.

A young Jasper County soldier of the 59th, Tighlman Jones, who was later mortally wounded, wrote home to his father in December of 1861. He showed a rather philosophical opinion of his early army life: "The boys are all in good spirits and I believe that they are all soldiers and will stand true to their country in her distracted condition and will never consent to bear with those that are intent on tearing down our nation's glory . . . We are all contented with our lot. We are well clothed, well fed and sleep as warm as coons, and I do not think that I am the loser by being a soldier." (143-4) --Jasper County During the Civil War <http://www.cusd1.jasper.k12.il.us/tp-proj/cwar.htm>

59th Regiment Infantry organized at St. Louis, MO, as 9th Missouri Infantry, Sept. 18, 1861 (Cos. A, B, C at Cape Girardeau from Aug. 6, 1861). Regiment moved to Jefferson Barracks, MO, Sept. 21, 1861; thence to Booneville, MO, Sept. 30. Attached to Kelton's Brigade, Pope's Div., Fremont's Army of the West, to Nov. 1861. Department of Missouri to Feb. 1862. (Designation of Regiment changed to 59th Illinois Infantry Feb. 12, 1862.) 2nd Brigade, 3rd Div., Army of Southwest Missouri, to June 1862. 1st Brigade, 4th Div., Army of Mississippi, to Sept. 1862. 30th Brigade, 9th Div., Army of the Ohio, to Oct. 1862. 30th Brigade, 9th Div., 3rd Corps, Army of the Ohio, to Nov. 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Div., Right Wing 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to Jan. 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Div., 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to Oct. 1863. 2d Brigade, 1st Div., 4th Corps, Oct. 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Div., 4th Army Corps, to May 1864. 2nd Brigade, 1st Div., 4th Army Corps, to Aug. 1864. 3rd Brigade, 1st Div., 4th Army Corps, Aug. 1864. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Div., 4th Army Corps, to Aug. 1865. Department of Texas to Dec. 1865.

  SERVICE.--Fremont's advance on Springfield, MO, Oct. 13-Nov. 3, 1861.  March to Syracuse Nov. 9-17, thence to LaMine River Dec. 7 and to Georgetown, MO, Dec. 15.  To LaMine Bridge Dec. 23 and duty there until Jan. 25, 1862.  Curtis' advance on Springfield, MO, Jan. 25-Feb. 11.  Campaign against Price Feb. and March.  Battles of Pea Ridge, AR, March 6-8.  March to Sugar Creek March 10, thence to Cross Timbers.  March to Batesville April 5-May 3.  Moved to Cape Girardeau, MO, thence to Pittsburg Landing, TN, May 11-24.  Advance on and siege of Corinth, MS, May 26-30.  Pursuit to Booneville June 1-16.  Duty at Jacinto, MS, until Aug. 4.  Reconnaissance to Bay Springs, MS, Aug. 4-7.  Bay Springs Aug. 5.  March to Murfreesboro, TN, Aug. 8-Sept. 1, thence to Louisville, KY, in pursuit of Bragg, Sept. 3-26.  Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky Oct. 1-15.  Battle of Perryville, KY, Oct. 8.  Lancaster Oct. 15.  March to Nashville, TN, Oct. 17-Nov. 7 and duty there until Dec. 26.  Wilson's Creek Pike Dec. 25.  Advance on Murfreesboro, TN, Dec. 26-30.  Nolensville, Knob Gap, Nov. 26.  Triune Dec. 27.  Battle of Stone's River Dec. 30-31, 1862, and Jan. 1-3, 1863.  At Murfreesboro until June.  Reconnaissance to Versailles March 9-14.  Operations on Edgeville Pike June 4.  Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 24-July 7.  Liberty Gap June 24-27.  Occupation of Middle Tennessee until Aug. 16.  Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga (GA) Campaign Aug. 16-Sept. 22.  Guard supply trains over Mountain in rear of Bragg's army during battle of Chickamauga.  Siege of Chattanooga, TN, Sept. 24-Oct. 27.  Reopening Tennessee River Oct. 26-29.  Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign Nov. 23-27.  Battles of Lookout Mountain Nov. 23-24.  Mission Ridge Nov. 25.  Taylor's Ridge, Ringgold Gap, Nov. 27.  At Whiteside, AL, until Jan. 27, 1864.  Regiment veteranized Jan. 12, 1864.  Veterans on furlough Jan. 27-March 19.  Moved to Cleveland, TN, and duty there until May.  Atlanta (GA) Campaign May 1 to Sept. 8, 1864.  Tunnel Hill May 6-7.  Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11.  Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8-9.  Demonstration against Dalton May 9-13.  Battle of Resaca May 14-15.  Near Kingston May 18-19.  Near Cassville May 19.  Advance on Dallas May 22-25.  Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5.  Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2.  Pine Hill June 11-14.  Lost Mountain June 15-17.  Assault on Kenesaw June 27.  Ruff's Station, Smyrna Camp Ground, July 4.  Chattahoochie River July 5-17.  Peach Tree Creek July 19-20.  Siege of Atlanta July 22-Aug. 25.  Flank movement on Jonesboro Aug. 25-80.  Red Oak Aug. 28-29.  Rough and Ready Aug. 31.  Battle of Jonesboro Aug. 31-Sept. 1.  Lovejoy Station Sept. 2-6.  Pursuit of Hood, into Alabama, Oct. 3-26.  Nashville Campaign Nov.-Dec.  Columbia, Duck River, Nov. 24-27.  Battle of Franklin Nov. 30.  Battle of Nashville Dec. 15-16.  [TIGHLMAN JONES wounded at Nashville, Dec. 15, 1864, and died Dec. 25, 1864, Cumberland Hospital, Nashville, TN.]  Pursuit of Hood, to the Tennessee River, Dec. 17-28.  Moved to Huntsville, AL, and duty there until March 1865.  Expedition to Bull's Gap and operations in East Tennessee March 15-April 22.  At Nashville, TN, until June.  Moved to New Orleans, LA, June 16, thence to Indianola, TX, July 7.  Duty at San Antonio and at New Braunfels, TX, until Dec.  Mustered out Dec. 8, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 4 officers and 105 enlisted killed or mortally wounded; 4 officers and 117 enlisted by disease; total 230. --Fredrick H. Dyer, Dyer's Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch Press, 1908; reprint Broadfoot Publishing, Morningside Press, 1994). http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mruddy/dyer.htm

1863 July 1. Warranty Deed by JOEL L. JONES to "THILMAN H. JONES, ZILLMAN JONES & LILLICE J. JONES," for E2 NE4 (87.04 acres), and SE4 NE4 (40 acres; should read NE4 SE4), Section 6, Twp. 8N, Range 11E, Jasper Co., IL. (An Affidavit from Zillman JONES recorded in Book 9, p.448, states, among other things, that Joel L. JONES was a widower on July 1, 1863, when he executed this deed to his children.) --Abstract of Title, October 20, 1902; photocopy of original document courtesy John Harper, February 2001

"JOEL JONES traveled to Nashville and took the body of his [young] son home for burial. They were together once more." --Five Days to Glory, 205.

1864 Dec. 27, Hazel Dell, Ill. / Col. J Ham, State Agent for Indiana Sanitary Commission / Dear Sir, / The bearer of this note Mr. JOEL L. JONES, is a citizen in this neighborhood of undoubted loyalty who wishes to get through the lines to Nashville, to attend to his son; who had his thigh badly fractured, in the late fight at Nashville on the 15 or 16 inst. You will confer a favor if you can assist him in getting through. / Truly Yours / Jas F Knowlton, M.D.

1865 January 3. Office, U.S. Sanitary Commission, Louisville, Ky. / To Rail Road Agt: / Transportation to Olney, Ill. at gov't rates is respectfully requested for the bearer, Mr. JONES going home with the remains of his son who died of his wound at Nashville on Christmas Day. / Rob't Thorne / Ass't. / Conductors will pass at Government rates the above. New Albany. Jan. 4th. / J.G. Williamson / Gen.l Agt.

Tighlman was wounded Dec. 15, 1864, and d. 10 days later in Cumberland Hospital; he was buried in DeBord Cemetery, Jasper Co., IL, after his father went to TN and retrieved his body.

Photograph of Tighlman Jones at http://members.aol.com/wilenesmth/jonesphotos.html

1. ↑ LDS IGI (International Genealogical Index)
   Film 2034689.

   Tilman A.W. [sic] JONES b. ca. 1844, Shawnee, Fountain Co., IN, son of Joel JONES and Ruth JONES [based on the 1850 census]

2. ↑ gravestone(s).

   the family's stone has "Tighlman Jones / 1843 - 1864;" the military stone appears to have "Sgt. T. A. H. Jones / Co. F / 59th Ill. Inf."

3. ↑ Jasper Co., IL, cemetery transcriptions (http:/www.iltrails.org/Jasper/cemeteries.html)
   DeBord Cemetery, Grandville Twp.

   JONES, TIGHLMAN A. HOWARD - Corp. Co. F, 59 ILL; b. 1843 - d. 25 Dec. 1864 (src #10- "Record of Burial Places of Soldiers & Sailors" for Jasper County)