Perry County AlArchives Biographies.....Jones, Bush 1836 - September 27, 1872
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Author: "Alabama: Her History, Resources, War Record and Public Men From 1540 to 1872,: by Willis Brewer, published 1872, pages 496-497

Bush Jones was a native and resident of Perry.  His parents came from Virginia 
to this county in 1835, and he was born here the year after.  Graduating at the 
State University, he finished his law studies at Lebanon, Tennessee, and began 
the practice at Uniontown in 1858.  In January 1861 he enlisted in a Dallas 
company that served six weeks at Fort Morgan.  He fought at Manassas as a 
private in the Fourth Alabama with which he afterwards served for some months 
as a lieutenant.  He then went to Corinth, where he was soon after elected 
captain of a company fro St. Clair, which was part of the Ninth Alabama 
battalion.  When the battalion was reorganized he was elected lieutenant 
colonel, and became colonel when the addition of two companies made the 
complement of a regiment which was called the Fifty-eighth Alabama.  He led it 
at Chicamauga, where it lost sixty-three per cent of its number, and at Mission 
Ridge, where his horse was killed under him.  The Thirty-second Alabama had 
been conjsolidated with his regiment, and he led the command at Dalton, Rocky 
Face, Resaca, New Hope, and thence to Atlanta.  He was in temporary command of 
Deas’ brigade at Atlanta, and led Holtzclaw’s July 22, at Atlanta, at 
Jonesboro, and Spanish Fort, as he did his consolidated regiments at 
Nashville.  He was paroled at Meridian, was appointed probate judge of this 
county by Gov. Parsons shortly after, and was elected by the people in 1865.  
From 1868, when he was evicted from office, byt the reconstruction acts, he 
practiced his profession here till his death September 27, 1872, at Uniontown, 
whild on the Greely electoral ticket.  Colonel Jones was of a commanding 
figure, and easy address.  He was a brave officer, ever at the post of danger, 
and was a gentleman of ability and culture.  He married a sister of Mrs. 
Augusta Evans Wilson of Mobile

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