Arnold Elzey Jones Jr. (18 December 1816 – 21 February 1871) was a Confederate States Army Major-General during the American Civil War.
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Arnold Elzey Jones Jr. was born in Somerset County, Maryland in 1816, and he graduated from West Point in 1837 and served in the Second Seminole War, the Mexican-American War, and the Third Seminole War. When the American Civil War broke out, he surrendered the Augusta Arsenal to the Confederate States Army and became colonel of the newly-formed 1st Maryland Infantry, CSA. He took command of Edward Kirby Smith's brigade after Smith was wounded at the First Battle of Bull Run in July 1861, later commanding a brigade under Richard S. Ewell during the 1862 Valley Campaign. On 4 December 1862, he was promoted to Major-General, and he came to serve as chief of artillery for the Army of Tennessee. He was paroled in Washington, Georgia in May 1865, and he retired to a farm in Maryland after the war, dying in 1871.