Arrangement: The collection is arranged chronologically by topic. It consists of 38 manuscripts boxes, 79 bound manuscripts volumes, and 8 oversized folders. There are additional printed pamphlets and monographs in the collection representing the work and life of Joseph Jones. For access to printed material, please contact a LaRC staff member. The collection is 45 linear feet.

Date Acquired: 06/00/1966

Subjects: Andersonville Prison., Confederate States of America -- Armed Forces -- Medical care., Jones, Joseph, 1833-1896., Jones family., Medical education -- Louisiana -- New Orleans., Medicine -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century., Physicians -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century., Tulane University. School of Medicine., United Confederate Veterans., United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate., United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865., University of Nashville. Medical Dept.

Forms of Material: Articles., Clippings (information artifacts), Correspondence., Lectures., Lists (document genre), Medical records., Muster rolls., Notebooks., Pamphlets., Photographs., Publications., Reports., Rosters.

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence, manuscripts and personal papers of Joseph Jones, a physician and professor of medicine of Georgia and Louisiana. Many of the documents are from the Civil War period, including Jones' medical investigations. Jones conducted studies of the diseases and injuries in Confederate hospitals and prisons, particularly Andersonville. An important result of these investigations was an extensive number of medical reports, hospital records, and casualty statistics that he collected and compiled.

Biographical Note

Joseph Jones was born September 6, 1833, the second son of Charles Colcock Jones, Sr., a Presbyterian minister from Liberty County, Georgia. He attended the College of New Jersey at Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania. Jones began teaching in 1856 at Savannah Medical College, and later at the University of Georgia as well as the Medical College of Georgia. In 1858 he married Caroline Smelt Davis of Augusta, Georgia. Jones served in the Confederate military forces as Surgeon Major throughout most of the war. He conducted studies of the diseases and injuries in Confederate hospitals and prisons, particularly Andersonville. Because of his activities at Andersonville, Jones was summoned as a witness at the trial of Henry Wirz.

After the Civil War, Jones joined the faculty of the University of Nashville Medical School. Two years later, he accepted a position at the University of Louisiana (later Tulane University). His wife died in 1868, and in 1870, he married Susan Raynor Polk, daughter of the Episcopal bishop of Louisiana. Joseph Jones' children were: Mary Cuthbert (from his first marriage), Frances Devereaux, Hamilton Polk, and Laura Maxwell. In 1872 Jones was appointed to the Chair of Chemistry and Clinical Medicine at the University of Louisiana, which he held until 1893 when he resigned due to ill health. He died in New Orleans, Louisiana, on February 17, 1896.

Subject/Index Terms

Andersonville Prison.
Confederate States of America -- Armed Forces -- Medical care.
Jones, Joseph, 1833-1896.
Jones family.
Medical education -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Medicine -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Physicians -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Tulane University. School of Medicine.
United Confederate Veterans.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
University of Nashville. Medical Dept.

Administrative Information

Repository: Louisiana Research Collection

Alternate Extent Statement: 45 linear feet

Access Restrictions: Collection is open to the public. No known restrictions.

Use Restrictions: Physical rights are retained by the Louisiana Research Collection. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.

Acquisition Source: Stanhope Bayne-Jones.

Acquisition Method: Gift.

Preferred Citation: Joseph Jones papers, Manuscripts Collection 172, Louisiana Research Collection, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118.

Finding Aid Revision History: Added subject headings 4/16/2010. Finding aid information entered in Archon by LAC Group in 2011. Revised by LAC Group 9/26/11.

Other Note:

To access the collection's correspondence index, please click on the "Digital Content" link for a PDF copy.

OCLC Number: 567805901

Box and Folder Listing

Box 33: Printed medical articles and pamphlets; pamphlets pertaining to medical colleges, education, et cetera; issues of medical journals

Folder 1: "Affections of Difficult Diagnosis Caused by Diseased Teeth" / Dr. J.P. H. Brown, 1866

Paper read before the Medical Society of Augusta, Georgia, 1866 June 20.

Folder 2: "Notes on Experimental observations on the Diminution of Sense of Taste" / Dr. Rufus Browne, undated

Fragment from The Dental Cosmos.

Folder 3: "The Interdental Splint" / E.N. Covey, 1866 February

Extract from The Richmond Medical Journal.

Folder 4: "History of Dry Culture System on the Rice Lands Near Savannah, with Observations on the Effects of Rice Culture upon the Heath of this City" / Dr. W.C. Daniell, 1866 July

Folder 5: "Gun-Shot Wound of the Brain..." / Dr. Paul F. Eve, 1870 January

Extract from The Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal. Volume 9, Number 1.

Folder 6: Report of Seven Operations for Stone in Thirty-three Days / Dr. Paul F. Eve, Nashville, 1867

Folder 7: "Address of the President Before the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association...November 13, 1889" / Dr. Hunter McGuire, 1890

Reprinted from transactions of the Association, Philadelphia.

Folder 8: "Traumatisms and Traumatic Aneurisms of the Vertebral Artery and Their Surgical Treatment..." / Dr. Rudolph Matas, 1893 November

Reprinted from Annals of Surgery.

Folder 9: "Gunshot Wounds of the Intestine..." / Dr. Albert B. Miles, 1893 December

Reprinted from Annals of Surgery.

Folder 10: "Historical Summary of Amputations at the Hip-Joint" / Dr. George A. Otis, 1867 November

Folder 11: Three articles from New York Medical Abstract, 1885

Included "Antizymotic Nature of the So-called Specific Remedies" / Dr. G. Pécholier, 1885.

"Hot Water in Pregnancy and Parturition" / Dr. A. Aurard, 1885.

"Prisons Formed from Food, and Their Relations to Biliousness and Diarrhoea" / Dr. T. Lauder Brunton, 1885. Fragment.

Folder 12: "The Probable Causes of Malaria and Epidemical Diseases" / Colonel George W. Rains, 1866 September

Address read before the Medical Society of Augusta, Georgia, 1866 July 18.

Folder 13: "Recent Improvements in the Science and Practice of Surgery" / Dr. J.W. Thompson, 1873 October

Folder 14: "Periscope of Medical and General Science in Their Relations to Dentistry" / Dr. George J. Ziegler, undated

Two fragment items.

Folder 15: Medical articles, undated

Other fragments.

Folder 16: Annual Circular of the Medical College of Louisiana, Containing a Prospectus for the Session of 1838 and 1839 / Tulane University of Louisiana School of Medicine, New Orleans, 1838

Folder 17: "Historical Sketch of the Medical Department of the University of Louisiana, Its Professors and Alumni from 1835-1862" / Dr. Stanford E. Chaillé, New Orleans, 1861

Folder 18: Thirtieth Annual Announcement of the Medical college of Georgia, Augusta / Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, 1861 August

Folder 19: Record of Facts in Relation to the Dismissal of the Faculty of the Medical Department of the University of Louisville / Published by the Former Faculty, Louisville, Kentucky, 1866

Folder 20: University of Tennessee, Nashville, Medical Department

Included: Announcement -- 1866-1867 / University of Tennessee Medical Department. 1866-1867.

One fragment item.

Open letter of Dr. T.R. Jennings, Professor of Anatomy, relative to his position in the college. [1860s]

Folder 21: Annual Circular of the Medical Department of the University of Louisiana Session / Tulane University of Louisiana School of Medicine, New Orleans, 1868-1869

Folder 22: A Catalog from 1834 to 1872 of the Professors...Alumni...Medical College...of Louisiana / Tulane University of Louisiana School of Medicine, New Orleans, 1871

Folder 23: Medical Department of Columbia College: Sixty-fourth Annual Catalog and Announcement / New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1871

Folder 24: Weekly Statement of Mortality, City of New Orleans, for the Week Ending Saturday, March 24th, 1888 / State of Louisiana Board of Health, 1888

Folder 25: Address to the members of the Louisiana State Medical Society / Louisiana State Medical Society, 1887-1888

Folder 26: The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Boston, 1871 May 4

Folder 27: Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal, Buffalo, New York, 1871 April

Folder 28: The Chicago Medical Examiner, Chicago, 1866 May

One issue fragment.

Folder 29: International Journal of Surgery, 1893 August

Folder 30: Journal of the American Medical Association, 1890, 1893

Folder 31: New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal Volume 50, Numbers 5 and 6, 1897

Folder 32: The St. Louis Medical Reporter, St. Louis, Missouri, 1868 May-September

Folder 33: The Times and Register: A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, 1891 May 23

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