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tery,and when the trial of the battle of Mobile Bay in ly64 tested ins work, the captured Tennessee was found to have an uninjured armor and to liave lost of lier officers and crew only two killed and nine wounded. He was employed liy Peru and Chili in their war with Spain, 1865-69, and refused the command of the squadion in defer- ence to the feelings of the native officers. He died in Scliuji, Ala., June 17, 1877.

JONES, Charles Colcock, clei-gyman, was born at Liberty Hall, Ga., Dec. 20, 1804; son of Maj. John (174y-177'J) and Susannaii Hyrne (Girar- deau) Jones; grandson of Maj. Jolin Jones (1720- 1779), the son of an English coloni.st, who settled in Cliarleston, S.C., was a rice planter, removed to Georgia in 1770, planted rice in St. John's par- ish, and fell at the siege of Savannah, 1779. Charles Colcock Jones was graduated from Prince- ton Theological seminaiy in 1829 and from An- dover Theological seminary in 1830. He married Mary Anderson. He was ordained by the pres- bytery of Georgia, Nov. 27, 1830, and was pastor at Savannah, Ga., 1831-32; a missionary in Lib- erty county, Ga., 1832-35; professor of ecclesias- tical history at the theological seminary at Co- lumbia, S.C., 1835-38; returned to missionary work in Riceborough, Ga., and vicinity, 1839-47; and was again professor of ecclesiastical history at Columbia Theological seminary, 1847-50. He was secretary of the board of missions at Pliila- delphia, 1850-57, when failing health necessi- tated his return to Georgia, where he was stated supply at Pleasant Grove, 1856-63. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by Jef- ferson college, Pa., in 1846. He is the author of a catechism for the instruction of negroes. He died at Pleasant Grove, Ga., March 16. 1863.

JONES, Charles Colcock, Jr., liistorian, was born in Savanuali. Ga., Oct. 28, 1831; son of the Rev. Dr. Charles Colcock and Mary (Anderson) Jones. He was a student at South Carolina col- lege and was graduated from the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1852, A.M., 1855. He attended the lectures of Agassiz at Harvard, was graduated from the Harvard Law school, LL.B., in 1855, and was admitted to the Savannah bar the same year, where he was associated in business with John E. Ward and Henry R, Jackson. He was mayor of Savannah for one year, 1860-61; and joined the Confederate army in the fall of 1861 as an officer of the Chatham artillery, later be- coming cliief of artillery for the militar}' district of Georgia with headquarters at Savannah. When Savannah fell he became chief of artillery to Hardee's corps with the rank of colonel, and surrendered with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army, April 26, 1865. He removed to New York city in December, 1865, and engaged in the prac- tice of the law until 1877, when he settled in Au-

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gusta, Ga., and devoted his business hours to the law and the rest of his time to literature and re- search in the antiquarian and historical lore of the south. He made a large collection of arciuv- ological remains, autographs, portraits and histor- ical documents. He was at the time of his death president of the Confederate Survivors association of Augusta, Ga. He received the honor- ary degree of LL.D. from the University of the City of New York in 1880 and from Emory college, Oxford, Ga., in 1882. His published works include: Historical Sketch of the Chat- liam Artillery dur- ing the Confederate Struggle for Independ- ence (1867); Ancient Tumuli on the Savannah River (1868); Historical Sketch of Tomo-Chi-Chi, Mico of the Yamacraivs (1868); Ancient Tumuli in Georgia (1869); Reminiscences of the Last Days, Death and Burial of General Henry Lee (1870); Casiniir Pulaski (1873); Antiquity of the North American Lidians (1874); The Siege of Savannah in 1779 (187 i); TJie Siege of Savannah in December, i564 (1874); Sergeant William Jasper (1876); A Piece of Secret History (1876); A Roster of General Officers, &c., in the Confederate Service (1876); Aboriginal Structures in Georgia (1878); Life and Services of Commodore Josiah Tatnall (1878); Dead Towns of Georgia (1878); Primitive Manufacture of Spear and Arrow Points (1879); De Soto's March Tlirough Georgia (1880); Memo- rial of Jean Pierre Purry (1880); Centres of Primitive Manufacture in Georgia (1880); Found- ers, d'C, of the Georgia Historical Society (1881); The Life and Services of Ex-Governor Charles Jones Jenkins (1884); Sepulture of Major-General Nathanael Greene and of Brigadier-General Count Casimir Pulaski (1885); The Life, Literary Labors, and Neglected Grave of Richard Henry Wilde (1885); Biographical Sketch of Major John Hab- ersham of Georgia (1886); Brigadier-General Robert Toombs (1886); The Life and Services of Hon. Samuel Elbert of Georgia (1887); The English Colonization of Georgia (1887): Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast (1888); History of Georgia (2 large vols., 1883). He was the editor of his fa- ther's History of the Church of God (1867); and of Acts passed by the General Assembly of the Colony of Georgia from 1755 to 1774 (1881), and Journal of the Transactions of the Trustees for Establish- ing the Colony at Georgia in America (1886), by