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HTML

<table id="mytable">
<tr valign="top">
<td class="columnaction" valign="center"><img src="../images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" class="columnactionlink" onclick="return doAccept('599577', '1', '','');" alt="Accept">Accept</a>
</td>
<td class="columndata">Message</td>
<td class="columndata">Test</td>
<td class="columndata"></td>
<td class="columndata"></td>
<td class="columndata">04/09/2011 23:59</td>
<td class="columndata">04/09/2011</td>
<td class="columndata">05/12/2011 07:00</td>
<td class="columndata">05/13/2011 07:00</td>
<td class="columndata"></td>
<td class="columndata">Doe, Jeffrey A. (xx)</td>
<td class="columndata">913014405580</td>
<td class="columndata">Skip</td>
<td class="columndata">04/09/2011 16:37</td>
<td class="columndata">C</td>
<td class="columndata">Doe,J</td>
<td class="columndata">04/09/2011 16:37</td>
<td class="columndata">04/09/2011 23:59</td>
<td class="columndata">04/09/2011 16:34</td>
</tr>
</table>
<div id="result"></div>

CSS

#result {
    border:3px solid red;
}

JavaScript

var $result = $('#result');
var output = '';
$('#mytable tbody tr td:nth-child(2)').each(function() {
    output += $(this).text();
});
$result.html(output);