John W. Jones
Residence was not listed;
Enlisted as a Captain (date unknown).
Promotions:
* Major
Intra Regimental Company Transfers:
* from company E to Field & Staf:
"E" Co. MS 46th Infantry
Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records
- Supplement to the Official Records of the Union & Confederate Armies
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46th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
46th Infantry Regiment was organized during the fall of 1862 by adding four companies to the six-company 6th (Balfour's) Mississippi Infantry Battalion. In February, 1863, it totalled 407 effectives and served in S.D. Lee's and Baldwin's Brigade in the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. The unit participated in the long Vicksburg siege and was captured on July 4, 1863. After the exchange it was assigned to General Baldwin's, Tucker's, and Sears' Brigade. It fought in the Atlanta Campaign, endured Hood's winter operations in Tennessee, and shared in the defense of Mobile. The regiment had 1 wounded at Chickasaw Bayou and during the Atlanta operations, May 18 to September 5, reported 23 killed, 68 wounded, and 37 missing. It lost 1 killed, 13 wounded, and 16 missing at Allatoona and had many disabled at Franklin. Only a remnant surrendered in May, 1865. The field officers were Colonels William H. Clark and Claudius W. Sears, Lieutenant Colonel William K. Easterling, and Major Constantine Rea.
http://www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/regiments.cfm
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Company E, "Jeff Davis Rebels," 46th Mississippi
Jno. W. Jones, Captain, Jeff Davis Rebels, to Major 6th Battalion
The original Jeff Davis Rebels Company became Company E, 6th Battalion, and ultimately Company B, 46th Mississippi Infantry
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John W. Jones, Captain, Capt. John Jones' Company (Jeff Davis Rebels), unatattached Mississippi Vols.*, enlisted October 30, 1861 at Vicksburg, Miss. by A. B. Hardcastle for 12 months, recorded Present, Major, Field & Staff, 6th Battalion Miss. Vols. July, 1862, no further records
[Note: He was not among those transferred to the 46th Mississippi]
* This company was successively designated as Captain Jones' Company, Mississippi Volunteers; Company E, 6th Battalion Mississippi Volunteers; and Company E, 46th Regiment Mississippi Infantry.
The 6th (Balfour's) Battalion Mississippi Infantry was organized about April, 1862. It was afterward increased to a regiment and its designation changed to 46th Regiment Mississippi Infantry Dec. 2, 1862
M269: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Mississippi
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Listed among those captured at Vicksburg July 4, 1863 and subsequently paroled, include:
JONES, JOHN W. MAJ. BALDWIN'S INF FIELD
http://www.nps.gov/vick/historyculture/confederate-parole-records-j.htm
I have been unable to locate any other information on his service. Baldwin does not mention him in his reports, I believe he must have
been on his Brigade staff.
BGen. William E. Baldwin's brigade at Vicksburg consisted of the 4th & 46 Mississippi and the 17th, & 31st Louisiana Infantry regiments
See also: http://www.mississippiscv.org/MS_Units/46th_MS_Inf.htm