Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina
Clement Anselm Evans, Ed.

Captain Iredell Jones, a distinguished South Carolina soldier of the Confederacy, now residing near Rock Hill, York county, was born at Hillsboro, N. C., February 8, 1842, the oldest son of Col. Cadwallader Jones and Annie Isabella, daughter of Governor Iredell, of North Carolina. His grandfather, Cadwallader Jones, a native of North Carolina, was an officer of the war of 1812, and his great-grandfather, of the same name, was distinguished in the war of the Revolution, and at Yorktown was presented with a sword by General Lafayette. Captain Jones came to South Carolina in his youth and after attending school at Winnsboro, entered the South Carolina college in 1859. On April 11, 1861, when a company of students was called out from the college, he accompanied it as second lieutenant, and served on Sullivan's island. After the fall of Sumter he returned to college. He then enlisted in Company A, Washington light infantry, Captain Conner commanding, and joined the Hampton legion at Richmond, a few days before the battle of Manassas, 1861. In that famous victory, during the charge at 3 p. m. of the legion upon Rickett's battery, he was wounded at the Henry house, near the spot where General Bee, Colonel Fisher and Colonel Bartow fell. His wound was a serious one, through the leg, and he was taken to Richmond by his uncle, Robin Jones, and being among the first wounded soldiers brought to that city from the field, was the cause of great curiosity and excitement, as well as lavish attention. After six months disability he returned to the college. In June, 1861, after the college company returned from Sullivan's island, a second company of students was formed, with Prof. C. S. Venable as captain and Iredell Jones as first lieutenant, but it was not accepted by Governor Pickens on account of the youth of most of its members. After recovering partially from wounds received in battle, he was commissioned second lieutenant by the governor and ordered to report to Col. Ransom Calhoun, at Fort Sumter, where he was assigned to Company I, Capt. John Mitchell, First South Carolina artillery, was later transferred to Company D, Captain Harleston, and then