BLACK-HAWK INDIAN MEXICAN WAR 1812 GENERAL MARINE COLONEL JONES DOCUMENT SIGNED!

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HERE AN 1832 BLACK-HAWK INDIAN WAR ERA US ARMY GENERAL ORDERS DOCUMENT SIGNED BY
GEN. ROGER JONES
(1789-1852)
MEXICAN WAR MAJOR GENERAL,
WAR OF 1812 MARINE CORPS LT. COLONEL
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CONFIDANT and FRIEND OF PRESIDENT TYLER, TAYLOR and FILLMORE
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Jones received brevet promotions for service at a half-dozen War of 1812 battles and specifically Lieutenant Colonel for gallantry at Fort Erie. Jones was promoted to Brigadier General in 1832 and Major General in 1848. He was commended during the Mexican War for taking steps to rapidly increase the Army's size and ensure it was trained, equipped, transported, paid and fed. During his tenure he molded the Adjutant General’s Department into the most important in the Army Headquarters, a preeminence it held until a reorganization prior to World War I.
Fort Jones, California was named for him
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HERE’S AN HISTORIC ORDER No. 27, “
ADJUTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE, WASHINGTON, JUNE 23
rd
, 1831
,” CONCERNING REVISED ARMY REGULATIONS, BY ORDER OF ACTING SECRETARY OF WAR, P. G. RANDOLPH, and MAJOR GENERAL MACOMB.
A FINE PIECE OF EARLY AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY.
The document measures 5” x 8” and are in Very Fine Condition – And Boldly Executed by Jones!
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of GENERAL JONES
Roger Catesby Jones
(1789–July 15, 1852) was an officer in the
United States Marine Corps
and
United States Army
who was the longest-serving
Adjutant General of the U.S. Army
in U.S. history, holding the position from 1825 to 1852.
Family and career
He was a central figure in the distinguished Catesby military family with relatives holding commissions in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, WWI, and WWII. His brother
Thomas Catesby Jones
won distinction in the US Navy. Of his thirteen children many went on to serve in the military in both Union and Confederate forces. His son
Catesby Roger Jones
was the commander of the ironclad CSS
Virginia
at Hampton Roads on the second day of battle with the USS
Monitor
. His son Charles Lucian Jones served in the Confederate navy on the ironclad
Tennessee
. His son, also named
Roger Jones
, served as
Inspector General of the U.S. Army
from 1888 to 1889.
Jones was appointed a
second lieutenant
in the United States Marine Corps on January 29, 1809 and was promoted to
first lieutenant
later that year. He resigned in July 1812 to accept a commission as a
captain
of artillery in the United States Army. He received
brevets
to
major
and
lieutenant colonel
for his services in the
War of 1812
. He was promoted to
colonel
and
adjutant general
in August 1818, and in March 1825 became Adjutant General of the U.S. Army. He received brevets to colonel in 1824, to
brigadier general
in 1832, and to
major general
in 1848. He died in 1852 and is buried in the
Congressional Cemetery
.
References
Jones, Lewis Hampton (1891). Captain Roger Jones, of London and Virginia: Some of his Antecedents and Descendants.
New York City
: Joel Munsell's Sons. pp. 72–73.
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