Captains-John W. Jones , James B. Hart, appointed on the staff of General Sears.
Jones,John W.,Major 6th (Balfour's)Battalion Miss. Infantry
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The Daily Dispatch (Richmond,Va.)
12/20/61 {reprinted from the Vicksburg Citizen-12/11/61}
A soldier shot by a Woman.
--Last night, about 7½ o'clock, a party of five soldiers, belonging to the Jeff. Davis Rebels, Captain Jones, being on the way to visit a camp across the Bayon, when opposite a house near the latter place, a woman by the name of Mary E. Gibson came to the door with a pistol in her hand, and without any further ceremony, cause or provocation, fired away at the soldiers, the shot taking effect in the left breast of Jerry Lavender, one of the company. The wound is not thought to be fatal, though it is said to be quite serious. The woman was arrested and her case will be properly disposed of.--Vicksburg (Miss.) Citizen, 11th.
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New Orleans Daily Picayune
1/10/62
Arrival of More troops- the Jeff Davis Rebels, a company of 79 men strong, raised in Yazoo county,Mississippi and commanded by Captain J.W. Jones,
arived yesterday morning in this city, by the Jackson Railroad.
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"Col. Balfour is absent, Major Jones is in command"(no further data)