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I am having a hard time saying that this is definitely "our" Thomas A. Jones. Note that it is identified as Thomas H. Jones, which might have been a way of faking the name, but why just the middle initial?

My biggest concern, however, is comparing it with the three known photos of Jones (one of which I can't find right away, but was taken outdoors in later years). Again, the passage of time can alter one's looks, but this gent is just too much of a dandy for my liking. Jones was an outdoors man, pretty much a dirt farmer in real life, he was not well-off financially, and I just don't see him able to "clean up" this nicely. And then, there is that haircut, which to me is very unusual for the times...

Would Jones have been high enough on the food chain to be sent to Montreal by the Confederacy?