CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: D. W. JONES - Harris County, TX ***************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm Submitted by Doris Peirce - ginlu@charter.net 27 January 2002 ***************************************************** TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson D. W. JONES. Dudley W. Jones, of Mt. Pleasant, was born in the Republic of Texas in 1842. He was attending college at Maury Institute in Columbia, Tenn., when the war between the states began. Quitting his studies he left for Texas to tender his services, and volunteered in the Ninth Texas cavalry commanded by Col. W. B. Sims and served during the first year of the war in the campaign in the Indian Territory and in Missouri. Upon the reorganization of the Ninth Texas near Corinth, Miss., in 1862, though but a beardless boy of scarce twenty years of age, he was triumphantly elected Colonel of the regiment and there is ample testimony that he was worthy to be the recipient of this high honor. It was a familiar sight in the "Army of the West" to see the bronzed and bearded faces of the veterans of the gallant old Ninth Texas following the lead of their handsome and chivalrous boy colonel. The losses of this regiment were unusually severe, and at the close of the struggle nine out of every ten men who had started out with the command failed to respond at roll call. Col. D. W. Jones served in the first constitutional convention of Texas after the war, and his future seemed bright, but he died shortly afterward in the city of Houston, where he lies buried.