[4][5] Starting around 2004,[1] students at Ole Miss Rebels football game began altering the final line of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", which ends "His truth is marching on.

When they failed to heed his warnings, Jones asked the band to stop.

[1] This continued a trend of the University of Mississippi ceasing to use symbols of the Confederate States of America, and followed the removal of Colonel Reb as a mascot and a 1996 ban on sticks being carried into Vaught–Hemingway Stadium, which effectively prevented the waving of Confederate battle flags at games.

[11] Before one Ole Miss football game, the Ku Klux Klan protested the removal of the song outside the university's chapel; they were outnumbered by counter-protesters and stopped after ten minutes.

His contract was not renewed in 2014, leading to speculation that the banning of "From Dixie with Love" played a part of it.