Thomas A Jones

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(06-03-2015 12:59 PM)Wild Bill Wrote:  Jim, I will agree with you.

Jim,

I agree also. I think many mouths (not just Jones's) remained sealed for years, if there was any chance of a "Yankee" hearing anything. There was a code of honor, especially in defeated Southern Maryland -- don't make the victors' lives easy!

I tend to follow Rick's theory that they wandered around Allen's Fresh and/or Newport and visited with Austin Adams. Also, I have lived in Southern Maryland all my life and have yet to find what I would call a pine "thicket." We don't normally have pretty, thick pines. We have scrub pines that lay down thick layers of needles. And, a thicket to me means lots of undergrowth of vines and briars and weeds that make it hard to walk through, let alone sit down, lay down, or get your leg in a comfortable position. Those needles do not allow thickets to grow either.

If I were Jones, I would also be slowly moving the pair closer to the Potomac so that when the opportunity came to hop across the river, there would not be any extra miles to cover to get to its banks.