My ancestor, James Urbin Jones was born in October of 1819 in Barnwell County, and lived in the Healing Springs area. He was my great-great-great grandfather on my father's mother's side.

He enlisted Co. I, 1st South Carolina Infantry (Hagood's), at Cole's Island, S.C., April 11, 1862 at the age of forty one. Upon the reorganization of Hagood's Regiment, April 12, 1862, Company I became Company C.

Private Jones, James U. is reported on Company C's muster rolls of October 31, and December 31, 1862, as in hospital; reported on muster roll of April 30, 1863, as present; on muster roll of December 31, 1863 as detached; and not on that of June 30, 1864, or any subsequent roll.

During the period of his service; Co. C 1st South Carolina Infantry defended the city of Charleston at the battle of Secessionville. The Union forces under Brig. Gen. Henry Benham suffered 683 casualties (107 dead), compared to 204 (52 dead) by the Confederates. Although the battle was minor, it served as a powerful propaganda victory, increasing morale particularly in Charleston and offsetting recent Confederate losses in the Western Theater.

Private Jones and the 1st S.C. Infantry were then transfered to the Virginia Theater. The 1st SC was assigned to command of Brigadier General Micah Jenkins. They participated in the Second Battle of Manassas as members of Longstreet's Corp, in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Longstreet's 28,000 man flanking counterattack, the largest simultaneous mass assault of the war, relieved the hard pressed Jackson's Corp and resulted in a major victory over Union Maj. General John Pope.

The Jenkins' Brigade, (minus its general who was wounded at 2nd Manassas), reached Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania at 11 A.M. September 15th. and took position on the high ground west of the Cemetery, the 1st SC on the left flank. Late in the evening it moved to the high ground west of the Burnside Bridge Road, where it remained under artillery fire until 3 P.M. of the 17th, when it returned to its first position in support of Moody's and Squire's Batteries. It then advanced to the apple orchard and to the stone house and mill, about 250 yards north of this point, where it engaged the Federal line, which had reached this elevation. After the withdrawal of the enemy, the Brigade advanced its skirmishers over this ground to the crest of the hill overlooking the low ground and a belt of woodland bordering the Antietam. The Brigade was relieved by Fitzhugh Lee's Cavalry Brigade during the night of the 18th and at sunrise of the 19th crossed the Potomac at Blackford's Ford.

The 1st S.C. Infantry, as a part of Jenkins brigade, served in the division of Maj. Gen. George Pickett at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Pickett's division also participated in the campaign of Lt. Gen. James Longstreet against Suffolk, Virginia, in 1863, but the Jenkins brigade was retained near Richmond, Virginia, missing the Battle of Gettysburg.

It appears that Private James Jones he was either wounded or injured around the same time as Gettysburg, and sent home on 10 July 1863.

He died on 5 April 1865 from his wounds or injuries, just four days before the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee. He is buried on his land behind the house of a Mr. O'Neal Hutson. His grave sits in the middle of a watermelon field in a patch of woods. My son, Jacob and I are guardians of his gravesite.

His son Henry Wilton Jones left Furman University to take his father's place, and served with the 17th South Carolina Infantry until the end of the war.

Engagements:

Date		Battle		Brigade		Division		Corps
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06/16/62		Secessionville, S.C.		Lt. Col T.J. Glover		Col. Johnson Hagood		N/A
08/29-30/62		Second Manassas, Va.		Jenkins'Brigade		Kemper's Division		Longstreet's Corps
09/14/62		Boonsboro, Va.		Jenkins' Brigade		Kemper's Division		Longstreet's Corps
09/17/62		Sharpsburg, Pen.		Jenkins' Brigade		Jones' Division		Longstreet's Corps
12/13/62		Fredericksburg, Va.		Jenkins' Brigade		Pickett's Division		Longstreet's Corps
4/10-5/3/63		Suffolk, Va.		Jenkins' Brigade		French's Division		Longstreet's Corps