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Daniel Webster JONES, (VETERAN CSA) (FAMOUS)

Oakland (now Oakland-Fraternal) Cemetery
Pulaski County,
Arkansas

COLONEL 3 Arkansas Regiment
Civil War Confederate
December 15, 1839 - December 25, 1918

Daniel Webster Jones

December 15, 1839-December 25, 1918

Governor Colonel (CSA) Attorney General

Daniel Webster Jones was born in Bowie County, Texas, in an aristocratic, land owning class. His father, Isaac N. Jones was a Physician and served in the Texas Republic Congress. His mother, Elizabeth W Littlejohn Jones gave birth to 9 children. They moved to Washington, Hempstead County, Arkansas when Daniel was an infant. His father purchased a very large plantation in Lafayette County. Jones was sent to the Washington Academy under B.J. Borden. He began to study law in January 1860, after his graduation from the Academy. When Arkansas seceded from the Union in May 1861, Jones enlisted in the Third Arkansas Regiment, which was the State Troops. He Participated in the Battle at Wilson’s Creek, Missouri under Colonel John R Gratiot, which saved Missouri for the Union. While fighting at Corinth, Mississippi, October 4, 1862 he was shot just below the heart and was taken prisoner by Union forces, but was later exchanged by the Union for one of their own troops. After achieving the rank of Colonel, in July 1863, at the Battle of Vicksburg, he was briefly taken prisoner. After his release, and as the war continued, he married Margaret P Hadley of Hamburg, Ashley County on February 9, 1864. Jones remained commander of his regiment until the final days of the war and then returned to Washington to take up again, the study of law. Admitted to the bar in September, 1865, the Governor Isaac Murphy, appointed him prosecuting attorney for Hempstead. In the 1870’s, with James K Jones, a boyhood friend, Jones opened a law practice. In 1874 he served as prosecuting attorney for the Ninth Judicial Circuit, then won the office of attorney general in the 1884 and 1886 elections. Then again returning to his law practice, Jones was elected in 1890 to serve a term in the state House of Representatives for Pulaski County. In 1895 he served as a lobbyist for the Iron Mountain Railroad, and fought against the creation of a railroad commission. In 1896, Jones, entered the county primaries as a Democratic gubernatorial nomination. He won the primary and in the general election he defeated the Republican candidate Harmon L. Remmel, due to his pro-silver stance, which was the leading issue in the 1896 campaign in Arkansas. Once again, in the 1898 election he defeated the Republican candidate, H. F. Auten and won a second term. He continued his drift toward populist reforms. The Jones administration generated a controversy that continued for a decade. The former Governor, James P. Clarke’s had requested that the Old State House be replaced by a new capitol. Jones repeated this request. But a frenzied legal campaign in May 1899 blocked the request. He was able to lay a cornerstone in November 1900 and the construction site remained inactive for two years. January 29, 1900, Jones declared his candidacy for the United States Senate, but lost to James H. Berry in the primary election. He returned to his law practice in Little Rock. His wife died in 1913 and he returned to political office as Pulaski County representative in 1915 assembly. After a short bout with pneumonia, Jones died at Little Rock was buried in his full Confederate gray uniform and in Oaklawn Cemetery in Little Rock.

Some information taken from the
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Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture
The Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Central Arkansas. Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1978.

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