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{{Short description|American soldier in the U.S. Army}}
{{Infobox military person
|name= William H. Jones
|birth_date= 1842
|death_date= {{Death date and age|1911|12|23|1842|1|1}}
|birth_place= [[Davidson County, North Carolina]], U.S.
|death_place= [[Efland, North Carolina]], U.S.
|placeofburial=Efland Methodist Church Cemetery
|placeofburial_label= Place of burial
|image=
|caption=
|nickname=
|branch= [[United States Army]]
|serviceyears={{circa|1877}}&nbsp;– 1878
|rank=[[Private (rank)|Private]]
|commands=
|unit=[[2nd U.S. Cavalry]]
|battles=[[Indian Wars]]<br/>[[Black Hills War]]<br/>[[Nez Perce War]]
|awards=[[Medal of Honor]]
|laterwork=
}}
'''William H. Jones''' (1842 &ndash; December 23, 1911) was an American soldier in the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] who served with the [[2nd U.S. Cavalry]] during the [[Indian Wars]]. He received the [[Medal of Honor]] for gallantry in separate battles against the [[Sioux]] and the [[Nez Perce tribe|Nez Perce]] in the [[Rocky Mountains]] during the summer of 1877.
==Biography==
William H. Jones was born in [[Davidson County, North Carolina]] in 1842. He later enlisted in the [[U.S. Army]] in [[Louisville, Kentucky]] and joined the [[2nd U.S. Cavalry]]. Jones later became a [[farrier|regimental farrier]] and a [[sergeant]]. While on frontier duty in the [[Rocky Mountains]] in 1877, he was twice cited for gallantry against the [[Plains Indians]] in the [[Montana Territory|Montana]] and the [[Idaho Territory|Idaho territories]]. The first occurred against the [[Sioux]] at [[Little Muddy Creek (North Dakota)|Little Muddy Creek]] on May 7, and the second against the [[Nez Perce tribe|Nez Perce]] at [[Battle of Camas Meadows|Camas Meadows]] on August 20, 1877. It was during this last battle that Jones suffered a serious knee injury. For his actions at these engagements, he received the [[Medal of Honor]] on February 28, 1878.<ref name="Beyer">Beyer, Walter F. and Oscar Frederick Keydel, ed. ''Deeds of Valor: From Records in the Archives of the United States Government; how American Heroes Won the Medal of Honor; History of Our Recent Wars and Explorations, from Personal Reminiscences and Records of Officers and Enlisted Men who Were Rewarded by Congress for Most Conspicuous Acts of Bravery on the Battle-field, on the High Seas and in Arctic Explorations''. Vol. 2. Detroit: Perrien-Keydel Company, 1906. (pg. 234)</ref><ref>Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs. ''Medal of Honor recipients, 1863-1973, 93rd Cong., 1st sess''. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1973. (pg. 301)</ref><ref name="Hannings">Hannings, Bud. ''A Portrait of the Stars and Stripes''. Glenside, Pennsylvania: Seniram Publishing, 1988. (pg. 275) {{ISBN|0-922564-00-0}}</ref><ref>O'Neal, Bill. ''Fighting Men of the Indian Wars: A Biographical Encyclopedia of the Mountain Men, Soldiers, Cowboys, and Pioneers Who Took Up Arms During America's Westward Expansion''. Stillwater, Oklahoma: Barbed Wire Press, 1991. (pg. 32) {{ISBN|0-935269-07-X}}</ref><ref>Greene, Jerome A. ''Nez Perce Summer, 1877: The US Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis''. Helena: Montana Historical Society, 2001. (pg. 161) {{ISBN|0-917298-82-9}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.homeofheroes.com/moh/citations_1865_ind/jones.html |title=MOH Citation for William Jones |accessdate= June 29, 2010 |author=Sterner, C. Douglas |year=1999 |work=MOH Recipients: Indian Campaigns |publisher=HomeofHeroes.com }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=3280|title=Military Times Hall of Valor: William H. Jones|accessdate= June 29, 2010 |author=Army Times Publishing Company |work=Awards and Citations: Medal of Honor |publisher=MilitaryTimes.com }}</ref> Jones returned to North Carolina after leaving the military and died in [[Efland, North Carolina]] on December 23, 1911, a day before [[Christmas Eve]]. He was buried at the Efland Methodist Church Cemetery.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.homeofheroes.com/gravesites/states/pages_go/jones_william.html |title=Photo of Grave site of MOH Recipient for William Jones |accessdate= June 29, 2010 |author=Sterner, C. Douglas |year=1999 |work=Medal of Honor recipient Gravesites In The State of New York |publisher=HomeofHeroes.com }}</ref>
==Medal of Honor citation==
Rank and organization: Farrier, Company L, 2d U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: At Little Muddy Creek, Mont., 7 May 1877- at Camas Meadows, Idaho, 20 August 1877. Entered service at: Louisville, Ky. Birth. Davidson County, N.C. Date of issue: 28 February 1878.
'''Citation:'''
<blockquote>Gallantry in the attack against hostile Sioux Indians on May 7, 1877 at Muddy Creek, Mont., and in the engagement with Nez Perces Indians at Camas Meadows, Idaho, on 20 August 1877 in which he sustained a painful knee wound.<ref name="AMOHW">{{Cite web
|accessdate = June 29, 2009
|url = http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/indianwars.html
|title = Medal of Honor recipients
|work = Indian War Campaigns
|publisher = [[United States Army Center of Military History]]
|date = June 8, 2009
|archive-date = August 3, 2013
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130803232814/http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/indianwars.html
|url-status = dead
}}</ref></blockquote>
==See also==
{{Portal|Biography}}
*[[List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Indian Wars]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
*{{Find a Grave|7817589|work=Claim to Fame: Medal of Honor recipients|accessdate=June 29, 2010}}
*{{Cite web |url=http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/orng/cem019.htm |title=Efland United Methodist Church Cemetery}}
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[[Category:United States Army Medal of Honor recipients]]
[[Category:People from Davidson County, North Carolina]]
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[[Category:American Indian Wars recipients of the Medal of Honor]]