My great granduncle, Samuel R. Jones, Jr. enlisted in 1st Ala. Infantry in Lowndes County, Capt. Stubbs company. They were sent to Island No. 10 off New Madrid, MO in the Mississippi River, along with the Eleventh Arkansas, the Forty-sixth Tennessee, and others. The Confederate position was fortified with 52 guns and the floating naval battery New Orleans with 9 guns. On March 15, 1862, Union fleet commander Andrew Foote arrived above Island No. 10 with 7 ironclad gunboats, 10 mortar boats, and transports ferrying 1200 men. On March 28, Col. Steedman, 1st Ala. Inf., wrote ".....they stood unmoved for eight hours in a terrific fire from at least twenty rifled guns and four 13-inch mortars, all at almost point-blank range....." Samuel R. Jones, Jr. died March 28, 1862. One year later his mother made a deposition to receive all monies due her son. The amount she received was pay for 1 month, 17 days at $11.00 per month, allowance for clothing $25.00, and enlistment bounty of $50.00 for a total of $92.23, which was paid on 19 July 1864. Martha Bridger Gates