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A M E R I CA'S
LARGEST INDEPENDENT
DISTILLING ORGANIZATION
I
N th,e Spring of 1865, a lieutenant of a Virginia Regiment of
the Confederate Army turned homeward from the Civil War
battlefields to find his house in ruins and his family destitute.
His family's wealth which before the war had been considerable had
been invested in Confederate bonds and was gone.
In
Georgia this
Virginia soldier, together with his father, one Paul Jones, then 66
years old, began making whiskey. Prior to the Civil War the Jones
family had lived in Lynchburg, Virginia. At the time when Sherman
began his march "from Atlanta to the Sea" General Lee ordered
the young lieutenant and his brother, a colonel, to Georgia in an
attempt to
~heck
Sherman's advance. The elder Paul Jones moved
from Lynchburg to Atlant;_ to be near his family.
In
a battle not far
from Atlanta, the colonel
"'.~s
killed. It is his son, then a boy of five,
who is the head of Frankfort Distilleries today.
To the first brand of whiskey produced was given the name of
the founder of this company, Paul Jones - and the name, too, of
his son who had died in the war. Through the years the popularity
of this whiskey spread - first through the South, then throughout
the country.
Late in the 19th century the Paul Jones Square Dance was named
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