Other books with information related to my ancestors
Anderson, Charles Roberts, ed. Journal of a Cruise to the Pacific Ocean, 1842-1844, in the Frigate UNITED STATES. Duke University Press. Durham, North Carolina. 1937.
Contains portions of the log written by Thomas ap Catesby Jones
Beers, Henry Putney. Guide to the Archives of the Government of the Confederate States of America. National Archives. Washington. 1968.
Bradley, Udolpho Theodore. The Contentious Commodore. Thomas ap Catesby Jones of the Old Navy 1788-1858. Ph.D. Thesis, Cornell University. Ithaca, New York. 1933.
Rush, Lieut. Commander Richard and Robert H. Woods. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Government Printing Office. Washington. 1894.
de Kay, James Tertius. Chronicles of the Frigate Macedonian 1809-1922.
W.W. Norton & Company. New York. 1995.
Catesby ap Roger Jones started his career on the Macedonian
Jones, Judge L. H. Captain Roger Jones. Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers. Albany, New York. 1891.
A genealogy of the Jones family. Available from University
Microfilms (UMI) as G 1362 (4 microfiches).
Long, David F. Sailor-Diplomat. Northeastern University Press. Boston. 1983.
A biography of Commodore James Biddle. He crosses paths with Catesby ap Roger Jones several times.
Nagel, Paul C. The Lees of Virginia, Oxford University Press. New York. 1990.
Nordhoff, Charles. Man-of-War Life. Classics of Naval Literature series. Naval Institute Press. Annapolis, Maryland. 1985.
Originally published in 1855, this book describes the circumnavigation of the globe by the USS Columbus. It describes events and places and ships that Catesby ap Roger Jones was involved in.
Parker, Captain William Harwar. Recollections of a Naval Officer. Classics of Naval Literature series. Naval Institute Press. Annapolis, Maryland. 1985.
Originally published in 1883, this officer crossed paths with
Catesby ap Roger Jones several times (he was in command of the Beaufort during the battle at Hampton Roads). He also mentions Pembroke Jones several times.
Pickles, Tim. New Orleans 1815. Osprey Military Campaign Series 28. Osprey Publishing Ltd. London. 1993.
Thomas ap Catesby Jones took part in the battle of New Orleans
Potter, E. B. The Naval Academy: Illustrated History of the United States
Navy. New York City: Galahad Books, 1971. 299 pp.
Tepper, Sol H. "Torpedoes? Damn!". Selma Printing Service. Selma, Alabama. 1979.
Ordeal at Selma Gun Foundry and Battle of Mobile Bay. Catesby ap Roger Jones was in charge of the Selma Gun Foundry.
Tepper, Sol H. Battle for Selma. Selma Printing Service(??). (no date, after 1988).
Thomas, Henry George. Around the World in Old Ironsides. Alan Flanders, editor.
Brandylane Publishers. Lively, Virginia. 1993.
Catesby ap Roger Jones was on the USS Constitution just before
this trip
Turner, Maxine. Navy Gray: A Story of the Confederate Navy on the
Chattahoocheee and Apalachicola Rivers. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: the Univerdsity
of Alabama Press, 1988 357 pp.
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