J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones

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J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones

1810–1866

Best known for his vivid Civil War diary, this 19th-century American writer also built a career as a novelist, editor, and political journalist. His work captures both the literary world and the tensions of a country on the edge of war.

2 Audiobooks

A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital

A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital

by J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones

Wild Western Scenes A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly Described

Wild Western Scenes A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly Described

by J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones

About the author

Born in Baltimore in 1810, J. B. Jones wrote under the name John Beauchamp Jones and became a popular novelist, especially for stories connected with the American West and South. Before the Civil War, he was also active as an editor and political journalist, building a reputation in literary and newspaper circles.

He is remembered most today for A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, drawn from his experience as a clerk in the Confederate War Department during the war. The diary has remained notable as a firsthand record of life inside the Confederate government and of the wider turmoil of the period.

Jones died in 1866, not long after the war. Although his fiction was widely read in his own time, his lasting place in history comes mainly from that detailed and deeply observed wartime diary.