Last updated: September 23, 2025
Person
Walter Jones
Library of Congress
Quick Facts
Walter Jones wrote about himself:
"I am not a Hobson, a Dewey, a Schley, nor a Sampson, but I was a High Private in Co. C., 8th N. Y. Cavalry, and carried this little Testament in my blouse pocket, which in two battles, saved my life from bullets, as represented in the above photo. The bullet in the upper corner was shot at me at Cedar Creek, Va., October 19, 1864. The bullet in the centre crashed into the Testament during the battle of Appomattox (better known as Lee's surrender), April 8th and 9th, 1865”
Sources
Walter G. Jones. Accessed April 2, 2013. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.09873/.
National Park Service. "8th Regiment, New York Cavalry." Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database.Accessed April 2, 2013. http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/ search-regiments-detail.htm?regiment_id=UNY0008RC.