Editing Fort Jones, California (section)

===Fort Jones===
Located at {{coord|41|35|46|N|122|50|31|W|display=inline}}, the post of Fort Jones was established on October 18, 1852, by its first commandant, Captain (brevet Major) Edward H. Fitzgerald, E Company, 1st U.S. Dragoons.  Fort Jones was named in honor of Colonel Roger Jones, who had been the Adjutant General of the Army from March 1825 to July 1852.<ref name ="MilMus">[http://www.militarymuseum.org/FtJones.html The California State Military Museum, Historic California Posts: Fort Jones (Siskiyou County)]</ref>

Such military posts were to be established in the vicinity of major stage routes, which would have meant locating the post in the vicinity of [[Yreka]], {{Convert|16|mi|km}} to the Northeast.<ref name ="MilMus" />  The areas around Yreka did not contain sufficient resources, including forage for their animals, so Capt. Fitzgerald located his troop some sixteen miles to the southwest, in what was then known as ''Beaver Valley''.<ref name ="MilMus" />  Fort Jones  would continue to serve Siskiyou County's military needs until the order was received to evacuate six years later, on June 23, 1858.<ref name ="MilMus" />

Among the officers stationed at Fort Jones who would attain national prominence in ensuing years were [[Phil Sheridan]] ([[Union Army]]); [[William Wing Loring]] ([[Confederate States of America|Confederate]]); [[John B. Hood]] (Confederate);  [[George Crook]] (Union), who would become one of the greatest leaders of the [[Grand Army of the Republic]] less than a decade later; and [[George Pickett]] (Confederate).  [[Ulysses S. Grant]] later a (Union) commander was ordered to Fort Jones, but resigned from the Army before his tenure was to begin.
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