Description
Written by John A. Eidsmoe, retired Air Force Lt. Colonel and currently Professor of Constitutional Law at the Thomas Goode Jones School of Law, Montgomery, AL.
This biography portrays Jones' life as a Christian, a student of Stonewall Jackson at VMI, confederate major at age 20, and the leader of the last desperate charge at Appomattox. He was a statesman, crusading anti-Reconstruction newspaper editor, speaker, Alabama House of Representatives, and Governor of Alabama, a jurist, and author of First Legal Code of Ethics.
