FP Series #475 - Anna Jones Traditional Cache
Hidden : 12/17/2009
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Four Hundred SeventyFifth in the Famous People (FP) Series - Anna Elinor Jones
Anna Elinor "Annie" Jones (1842 – ?) was a Massachusetts woman jailed during the American Civil War on suspicion of being a spy for the Confederate States of America. She was involved in a dispute between Union generals George Armstrong Custer and H. Judson Kilpatrick that led to her arrest and imprisonment.

Jones left home in 1861 and traveled to Washington, D.C., to become an army nurse. She was turned down because of her youthful age. Instead, she found employment as a vivandière, cooking and cleaning for the soldiers. She was also suspected of offering personal services as a private companion or escort to officers.

Her frequent travels between the army and contacts in Virginia garnered additional suspicion. Jones was arrested several times, including once by Confederate authorities. She denied being a spy, but admitted that she had depended on the kindness of Union officers for her sustenance.

In 1863, Jones "went to the front as the friend and companion of General Custer," she later wrote in a sworn statement. "Gen. Kirkpatrick became very jealous of Gen. Custer's attention to me, and went to Gen. Meade's headquarters, and charged me with being a rebel spy."

The War Department incarcerated Jones in the Old Capitol Prison until November when Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton ordered her freed. As part of her parole she promised to stay out of Virginia, but in March 1864 she was arrested while trying to bluff her way into the state. She was transported to her native Massachusetts to serve her sentence in confinement on Cape Cod. U.S. Congressman Fernando Wood, a former mayor of New York City and a political rival of Kilpatrick's, took an interest in Jones' case after she contacted him and asked for his assistance. He appealed to President Abraham Lincoln and to Stanton for her release, and she was set free in July 1864.

She was later arrested again for violating the terms of her parole by trying to sneak back into Virginia.
You might say it was her Jones-Yearly.

A new cache now rests in the Jones-Yeary Cemetery. See if you can spy this matchstick holder blue bison tube.
GPSr Accuracy 10.3'
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