![]() Roger Jones Brigadier General, United States Army |
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Roger
Jones of Washington, D.C.
Appointed from Washington, D.C., Cadet United States Military Academy 1 July 1847 (34) Brevet Second Lieutenant, Mounted Rifles, 1 July 1851 Second Lieutenant, 24 May 1852 First Lieutenant, 26 January 1857 Regimental Adjutant, July 1854 to 24 March 1858 Captain, Assistant Quartermaster, 23 April 1861 Major, Adjutant, 12 November 1861 Lieutenant Colonel, Adjutant General Corps, 13 June 1867 Colonel, Assistant Inspector General, 5 February 1885 Brigadier General, Inspector General of the Army, 20 August 1888 Died 26 January 1889 Buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery NOTE: He was the son-in-law of Innis
Newton Palmer, Brigadier General, United States Army.
![]() Roger Jones as a Major, circa 1861-63 Courtesy of the National Archives ![]() Photo By Michael Robert Patterson, 1999
JONES, ROGER
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Posted: 8 January 2002 Updated: 18 October 2002 Updated: 8 March 2003 Updated: 15 December 2005 |
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