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570. of the spring where we had camped, and I saw that George Jones was put away in the best and most respectable manner possible considering the circumstances by which we were governed at that time. We buried him entirely alone, near a yellow pine tree, and at his head we placed a rude pine board, dressed in as good a shape as could be done with such tools as were accessible to our use. On this board his name was engraved, also his age and the mariner in which he came to his death, and the same is also, to be seen on the yellow pine tree that stands near the grave of this once noble

Geroge Jones' grave. friend and hero of the plains.

The prisoners that were taken here Lieut Jackson sent to Fort Yuma and placed under guard, as Gen. Crook had made up his mind to capture all the Apaches