J. B. JONES
(John Beauchamp Jones)
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When Judah P. Benjamin announced to the Confederate War Department that the Union Army had been defeated at Manassas on July 21, 1865, he spoke:
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John Beauchamp Jones was a writer whose books enjoyed popularity during the mid-19th century. Jones was a popular novelist (particularly of the American West and the American South) and a well-connected literary editor and political journalist in the two decades leading up to the American Civil War. During the war, he served in the Confederate War Department, and is today, above all, remembered for his published diary from the war period.