Henry Rootes Jackson
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:
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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