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Withers, Jones Mitchell

soldier, lawyer, journalist, legislator, was born Jan. 12, 1814, in Madison county, Wis.

He settled in Mobile as a lawyer and commission merchant in 1841. He was in the legislature in 1855; mayor of Mobile in 1856-61, and at the beginning of the civil war entered the confederate army as colonel of the third Alabama infantry. He became brigadier-general in 1861, and major-general early in 1862. After the war he returned to Mobile, and edited the Tribune in that city.