{⋆★⋆} BG Jackson, Henry Rootes

Henry Rootes Jackson

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Born: June 24, 1820

Birth Place: Athens, Georgia

Father: Dr. Henry Jackson 1778 – 1840
(Buried: Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, Georgia)​

Mother: Martha Jacqueline Rootes Unknown – 1853
(Buried: Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, Georgia)​

1st Wife: Cornelia Augusta Davenport
(Buried: North Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia)​

2nd Wife: Florence Barclay King 1834 – 1912
(Buried: Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia)​

Children:

Henry Rootes Jackson Jr. 1845 – 1895​
(Buried: Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, Georgia)​
Howell Cobb Jackson 1848 – 1906​
(Buried: Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia)​
Cornelia Augusta Jackson Barrow 1852 - 1899​
(Buried: North Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia)​

Education:

1839: Graduated from Yale University​

Occupation before War:

Attorney in Savannah, Georgia​
United States District Attorney for Georgia​
Poetry Publisher​
1846 – 1848: Served in the Mexican War as Colonel of Georgia Regiment​
Editor of the Savannah Georgian Newspaper​
1860: Delegate to Democratic Party National Convention​

Civil War Career:

1861: Delegate to Georgia State Secession Convention​
1861 - 1865: Brigadier General of Confederate Army Infantry​
1861: Major General of Georgia State Troops​
1864: Participated in the Atlanta Campaign​
1864: Captured during the Battle of Nashville, Tennessee​
1864 – 1865: Prisoner of War held at Fort Warren, Massachusetts​

Occupation after War:
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1865 – 1885: Attorney in Savannah, Georgia​
1875 – 1898: President of Georgia State Historical Society​
1885 – 1886: United States Minister to Mexico​
1886 – 1893: Attorney in Savannah, Georgia​
1893 – 1898: Director of Central Railroad & Banking Company​

Died: May 23, 1898

Place of Death: Savannah, Georgia

Age at time of Death: 77 years old

Cause of Death: Pneumonia

Burial Place: Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia
 
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Jackson was originally commissioned a brigadier general in the CS Army on June 4, 1861 but resigned on Dec. 2, 1861 to be a Major General over the Georgia State Troops. When His State Trops were absorbed into the Confederate Army Jackson was recommissioned on September 23, 1863.
 
When Gen. Clement Stevens was mortally wounded at the battle of Peach Tree Creek on July 20, 1864 , it was Jackson who took charge of Steven's brigade. It was this brigade Jackson led through the rest of the Atlanta Campaign and at Franklin and Nashville.
 
JOURNAL ARTICLE
The Speech of Henry R. Jackson at the Macon Fair, 1887: What the South Fought For, 1861-1865
E. Merton Coulter
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 50, No. 4 (December, 1966), pp. 366-381 (16 pages)
Published By: Georgia Historical Society
The Georgia Historical Quarterly


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