Thomas A Jones

[Rick Smith]

(06-03-2015 05:21 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Townsed paid Jones 60$ for the interview. In current $$ terms this would be 1500$. If that had an influence?

Eva,

Thomas jones was also offered $100,000 and a drink of whiskey by detective Willie Williams at Port Tobacco during the time which Jones had charge of Booth & Herold. Jones had lost everything during the War, including his wife, whose demise he and his brother-in-law, Thomas Harbin, put down to a decline brought on by the stress of having their home ransacked time and again by federal shore patrols off the gunboats which ran up and down the lower Potomac. She was also in a weakened condition from recently having been delivered of her last child.

Jones turned down the offered reward, but accepted the drink, then left Brawner's Hotel.

He is one of the, if not the best, example of Southern manhood in the entire, melancholy drama.

And yes, he wrote his book with an eye to protecting many others. Still doing his job long after the War was ended.

Rick