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Image of United States Army Tank Corps pin of Minot Jones

Officer's sword and scabbard carried by Samuel Minot Jones during the Civil War, made by Ames Manufacturing Company in Chicopee, Massachusetts

Images of monogrammed walking stick owned by Samuel Minot Jones

Letter written from Samuel Minot Jones to his brother while Samuel was camped on the battlefield at Sugar Creek, Arkansas. Details how the Union won the pivotal Civil War battle at Pea Ridge despite being outnumbered three to one by Confederate…

Portrait of Thomas Jones

View of Merchants' Row, including Cutler's store, from the Amherst Town Common

Pen and ink drawing showing the exterior and side view of the Congregational church meeting house, now College Hall at Amherst College

Minot Jones in his Army uniform with rifle by his side. Photograph possibly taken in an Army camp, as there appear to be cots laden with belongings in the background.

Young Minot Jones as a toddler, standing behind his mother, Harriet Stenger Jones. She is seated and holding his arms loosely around her neck.

Exterior view of the front of the house in which Samuel Minot Jones spent his boyhood, located in Amherst, Massachusetts

Photo of Samuel Minot Jones and his sister Augusta Thayer Jones as children

Exterior view of the front and side of the house in which Samuel Minot Jones was born, located in Enfield, Massachusetts.

Two white boys and a girl stand in front of a wooden cabin facing each other. One of the boys is holding a large dog in his lap.

Two white women face each other near an entrance to a wooden house. One is sitting on the steps holding a baby while the other stands in front of them holding a dog in her lap. A railcar is in the middle ground and a hill rises in the background.

A view of a town with a church in the center and other town buildings around it. Some snow lies on the ground in the foreground and a hill rises in the background.