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Civil War Soldiers - Jackson
| Jackson, Conrad F., brigadier-general,
U.S. Army, was born in Pennsylvania, Sept. 11, 1813. He was an
employee of the Philadelphia & Reading railroad from its beginning
until 1861, when he resigned to become colonel of the 9th Penn.
reserves. He commanded the regiment in the protection of the national
capital and at the battle of Dranesville, Va., and served under Gen.
McCall in the Peninsular campaign, being attached to Seymour's brigade
and succeeding to the command of the brigade when Seymour took charge
of the division. In July, 1862, he was promoted to the rank of
brigadier-general of volunteers and fought at second Bull Run, South
mountain and Antietam. He fell while leading a charge in command of
the attacking column, at Fredericksburg, Va., and died on the
battlefield, Dec. 13, 1862. Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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| Jackson, James S., brigadier-general,
U.S. Army, was born in Fayette county, Ky., Sept. 27, 1823. He was
graduated at Jefferson college, Pa., studied law at Transylvania
university, and began practice in 1845. The following year he assisted
in organizing a regiment of volunteers for the Mexican war, and served
for a time as lieutenant. While in Mexico he became involved in a
quarrel with Col. Thomas F. Marshall, which resulted in a duel,
whereupon he resigned from the army to escape trial by court-martial.
He resumed his law practice at Greenupsburg, and afterward at
Hopkinsville, Ky., was elected a representative to the 37th U. S.
Congress, and served in the first session from July 4, to Aug. 6,
1861. During the recess in the autumn of 1861, he organized the 3d Ky.
cavalry, of which he became colonel. He participated in the battle of
Shiloh, where his regiment was in Rousseau's 4th brigade of the 2nd
division, and on July 16, 1862, he was commissioned brigadier-general
of volunteers. He was assigned to the command of a division of
McCook's corps of the Army of the Ohio, and with his division
participated in the battles of Iuka and Corinth, and while leading his
men at the battle of Perryville, Oct. 8, 1862, received a wound from
which he died almost instantly.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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| Jackson, Nathaniel J.,
brigadier-general, U.S. Army, was born in Newburyport, Mass., July 28,
1818. He became a machinist and at the outbreak of the Civil war was
superintendent of the Hill mills at Lewiston, Me. He became colonel of
the 1st Maine regiment, May 3, 1861, and on Sept. 3, following,
colonel of the 5th Maine infantry. He was wounded at the battle of
Gaines' mill, June 27, 1862, was commissioned brigadier-general of
volunteers, Sept. 24, and served as commander of the 2nd brigade, 2nd
division, 12th army corps. He was again wounded at Chancellorsville,
and when able to leave the hospital was given command of Riker's
island and later of Hart island, New York harbor. When able to bear
arms he was assigned to command the 1st division, 20th army corps, and
took part in Sherman's march to the sea and the invasion of the
Carolinas, his last engagement being at Averasboro, N. C., March 16,
1865. He was brevetted major-general of volunteers, March 13, 1865,
and was mustered out of the service Aug. 24 of that year. After the
war he became interested in coal mining. He died in Jamestown, N. Y.,
April 21, 1892.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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| Jackson, Richard H.,
brigadier-general, U.S. Army, was born in Ireland, July 14, 1830. He
migrated to America in early life and, entering the United States army
as a private in 1851, he served in Florida against the Seminole
Indians and in Nebraska and the western territories, and in Sept.,
1859, passed the examinations before a regimental board and the
academic board at the U. S. military academy, and was appointed brevet
2nd lieutenant, 4th U. S. artillery. He then served at Fort Monroe and
in Texas, being promoted first lieutenant of the 1st artillery, May
14, 1861; engaged in the defense of Fort Pickens and in the capture of
Pensacola, Fla.; served in the field with the 10th army corps,
Department of the South; was on Folly island, S. C., during the
operations against Fort Sumter, and then took part with the Army of
the James in the final campaign terminating in the surrender of Lee.
He was made brigadier-general of volunteers, May 19, 1865, was
brevetted major-general of volunteers, Nov. 24, 1865, for faithful and
meritorious services, and was mustered out of the volunteer service,
Feb. 1, 1866. In the regular army he received the brevets including
that of brigadier- general. Gen. Jackson was promoted major of the 5th
artillery, July 5, 1880, and lieutenant-colonel of the 4th artillery,
Dec. 4, 1888, serving at various posts. He died Nov. 28, 1892.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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JACKSON, THOMAS J., Virginia.
Major, Corps of Artillery, April, 1861.
Brigadier general, P. A. C. S., June 17, 1861.
Major general, P. A. C. S., October 7, 1861.
Lieutenant general, P. A. C. S., October 10, 1862.
Died May 10, 1863, at Guiney's Station, Va., from wounds received at
Chancellorsville, May 2, 1863.
Commands.
Commanding at Harper's Ferry, Va., April 27, 1861. Commanding, July
21, 1861, First Brigade of the Army of the Shenandoah, composed of the
Second, Fourth, Fifth, Twenty-seventh and Thirty-third Virginia
Regiments Infantry, and Pendleton's Light Battery. Commanding Army of
the Monongahela, sometimes called the Army of the Valley. Commanding
army corps consisting of the divisions of Jackson (T. J.), A. P. Hill,
Ewell and Rodes, Army of Northern Virginia. Commanding Second Corps,
Army of Northern Virginia, composed of the divisions of Early, A. P.
Hill, D. H. Hill and two battalions of artillery, from June 1, 1862,
to May 2, 1863.
Jackson, Thomas Jonathan, born in Virginia, appointed from Virginia
cadet United States Military Academy, July 1, 1842; graduated
seventeenth in a class of fifty-nine.
Brevet second lieutenant, First Artillery, July 1, 1846.
Second lieutenant, March 3, 1847.
First lieutenant, August 20, 1847.
Brevet captain, August 20, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct
in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, Mexico, and
Major, September 13, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the
battle of Chapultepec, Mexico.
Resigned February 29, 1852.
Source: Military Records of General Officers of the Confederate
States of America, by Charles B. Hall, 1898
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