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Owen Jones, 20, Private, Capt. Fred Tate’s Company, 5th Regiment Texas Volunteers,* enlisted October 10, 1861 in Fayette County by Fred Tate for 6 months, mustered out April 24, 1862 by reason of expiration term of service, description, Farmer, 5’ 6”, fair complexion, grey eyes, black hair

* This company was successively designated as Captain Tate’s Company and Captain Timmons’ Company, 5th Regiment Texas Volunteers; Captain Timmons’ Company and Company /A, Nichols’ Texas Volunteers, and Company A, 9th (Nichols’) Regiment Texas Infantry

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Owen G. Jones, 21, Private, Capt. Littleton W. Moore’s Company, Flournoy’s Regiment Texas Infantry,* enlisted April 13, 1862 at La Grange by R. J. Gregory for 3 years or the war, promoted 3rd Corporal, no date, 1st Corporal January 1864, no further records

* This company subsequently became Company I, 16th Regiment Texas Infantry

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Texas

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16th Texas Infantry Rgt.
The regiment was formed in the summer of 1862 and included men from
Belton, Austin and the counties of Washington and Upshur. It was
assigned to Flournoy's, Waterhouse's, Scurry's brigade,
Trans-Mississippi Department. In June 1863 it lost two killed and five
wounded at Milliken's Bend. Three officers and 30 men were captured
during the Red River campaign and it fought at Jenkins' Ferry. It moved
to Hempstead, Texas and disbanded before the June 1865 surrender.

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