John Jones, a native of Iowa and a resident of Atchison, Kansas, enlisted as a private and was mustered into Company A, 5th Kansas Cavalry, on October 31, 1861, at Leavenworth, Kansas. He was captured on April 25, 1864, at Marks’ Mill, Arkansas, and held as a prisoner of war in Tyler, Texas, until he was exchanged.

The 5th Kansas Cavalry was organized from July 1861 to January 1862 at Leavenworth, Kansas; the regiment fought in the 1863 battles of Helena and Pine Bluff, and in the 1864 battles of Lexington, Little Blue River, Independence, Byram’s Ford, Westport, Marais des Cygnes, Mine Creek, Marmiton River, and Newtonia.

Jones and the regiment were mustered out on December 8, 1864, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He died in the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Sawtelle, California, on November 26, 1924.

Carte-de-Visite by Unknown Photographer.

Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 31774