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As a 25-year-old single father, with a lot of life and energy and a 3-year-old son being left behind, he marched off to war at the call of his country. He would serve less than five months before succumbing to fever in the heat and swamps of a mosquito-infested part of Louisiana known as Carrollton. He died fighting to save the Union from the insurrectionists who formed the Confederacy.
Sadly, he lies today, with the exception of a small American flag, almost forgotten by the country he fought and died for, in the Jones family plot in an isolated cemetery on the corner of Maple Street and Lakewood Drive, here in Mashpee. His name is Ezra Jones, and he enlisted with the 38th Massachusetts Infantry in August 1862 during the height of the Civil War. He died of typhoid fever in a hospital at the Greenville Encampment, in the Carrollton area near New Orleans. The site included a barracks for troop housing, a cavalry camp of instruction and a general hospital. The camp of instructio ....

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