My great granduncle, Henry Miley Jones, enlisted in Co.D/I 21 AL Infantry in 1863 at Selma. The 21st Alabama Infantry participated in defending Mobile area from Jan. 1865 until its surrender May 5, 1865. Mobile was heavily fortified with 300 guns around it, island and shore batteries, and Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely. Spanish Fort was beseiged for 13 days by Gen. Canby's forces. The Confederates were overrun and most escaped by boats to Mobile. General Steel's Union forces attacked Fort Blakely on April 2, 1865. The Confederates numbered about 4000 and were not able to withstand the Union's 16,000 man attack. At Blakely about 3500 men were taken prisoners and sent to Ship Island, Mississippi. Henry Miley Jones was among those sent to Ship Island. After parole, he went home to Dallas Co., AL. where he lived until 1888 when he moved to Ouachita Parish, LA. August of 1911 he applied for pension in Louisiana. He died January 1932, Calhoun, LA.