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Photo # NH 48723:  Commander Catesby ap R. Jones, CSN.

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Commander Catesby ap R. Jones, Confederate States Navy, (1821-1877)

Catesby ap Roger Jones was born in Fairfield, Virginia, on 15 April 1821. Appointed a Midshipman in the Navy in 1836, he served extensively at sea, receiving promotion to the rank of Lieutenant in 1849. During the 1850s, Jones was involved in development work on Navy weapons and served as ordnance officer on the new steam frigate Merrimack when she began active service in 1856.

When Virginia left the Union in April 1861, Lieutenant Jones resigned his U.S. Navy commission, joining the Virginia Navy soon thereafter and becoming a Confederate Navy Lieutenant in June. In 1861-62, he was employed in converting the steam frigate Merrimack into an ironclad and was the ship's Executive Officer when she was commissioned as CSS Virginia. When her Commanding Officer, Captain Franklin Buchanan, was wounded in the 8 March 1862 attack on USS Cumberland and Congress, Jones temporarily took command, leading the ship during her historic engagement with USS Monitor on the following day. Later in 1862, he commanded a shore battery at Drewry's Bluff, on the James River, and the gunboat Chattahoochee while she was under construction at Columbus, Georgia.

Promoted to the rank of Commander in April 1863, Jones was sent to Selma, Alabama, to take charge of the Ordnance Works there. For the rest of the Civil War, he supervised the manufacture of badly-needed heavy guns for the Confederate armed forces. With the end of the conflict in May 1865, Jones went into private business. After working in South America, he made his residence in Selma, where he lost his life at the hands of a neighbor on 20 June 1877.

This page features all our pictures of Commander Catesby ap R. Jones, CSN.


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the "Online Library's" digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

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Photo #: NH 48723

Commander Catesby ap R. Jones, CSN


Photographed in Confederate Navy Uniform, circa 1863-64.

Courtesy of his grandson, Catesby ap R. Jones.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 127KB; 530 x 765 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 48724

Commander Catesby ap R. Jones, CSN


Halftone reproduction of a photograph, published in Fiveash, "Virginia-Monitor Engagement", Norfolk, Va., 1907.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 104KB; 545 x 765 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 66653

Commander Catesby ap R. Jones, CSN


19th Century line engraving.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 128KB; 590 x 765 pixels

 

In addition to the views shown above, our Photo # NH 45978 features a small picture of Catesby ap R. Jones. This view appears very similar to NH 48724, which is shown above.

Also, our Photo # NH 46251 shows a purported relic of CSS Virginia that was in the posession of the descendants of Catesby ap R. Jones in about 1930.


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the "Online Library's" digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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