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WITHERS, Jones Mitchell, soldier, born in Madison county, Wisconsin, 12 January, 1814. He was graduated at the United States military academy in 1835, and resigned in the same year, but during the Creek disturbances in 1836 commanded the Alabama volunteers. He subsequently studied law in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, became private secretary to Governor Clement C. Clay, and was admitted to the bar in 1838. He settled in Mobile as a lawyer and commission merchant in 1841. He was in the legislature in 1855, mayor of Mobile in 1856-'61, and at the beginning of the civil war entered the Confederate army as colonel of the 3d Alabama infantry. He became brigadier-general in July, 1861, commanding the defences of Mobile, major-general early in 1862, commanded a division at Shiloh, and participated in the battle of Stone River, 31 December, 1862. He was subsequently in charge of a department, with headquarters at Montgomery, Alabama After the war ha returned to Mobile, and edited the "Tribune" in that city.
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