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... was educated in the schols of that county, and entered the University of Virginia, graduating therefrom soon... several thousand dollars in cash, proposed to> President Lamar that if he would allow him the sole command... of the ranger companies, he would make an effort to raise them. To this President Lamar agreed, and Maj. Jones... with President Lamar that Maj. Jones was to have the sole command of the companies that he had raised... being given by President Lamar. Feeling the great injury done him, Maj. Jones at once tendered his