Samuel Jones (December 17, 1819 – July 31, 1887) was a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

[1] His father, Samuel Jones, was a nephew and ward of Governor William Branch Giles, of Virginia, under whose care he was brought up, and a graduate of Princeton College.

Jones was appointed a cadet at West Point United States Military Academy from Virginia July 1, 1837, and was graduated and was brevetted as a second lieutenant in the 2nd Artillery Regiment on September 28, 1841.

The September 1863 Battle of Blountville was the initial step in a Union attempt to force Jones and his command to retire from East Tennessee.

When the Union Navy began shelling Charleston, South Carolina, Jones placed fifty captured Federal officers brought into town under guard.

In February 1865, Jones was named the commander of the Department of Florida and South Georgia, a post he held until the end of hostilities.

Here he made one of the last stands of the Confederacy at the Battle of Natural Bridge, and held his position until the surrender at Appomattox, Virginia.