Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-02-06
IN OLD HERO'S FUNERAL.
REMAINS OF JOHN JACKSON
ARE LAID AT REST.
An Interesting Sketch Of The Old
Mans Life-His Exploits
During The Civil
War Times.
INTERMENT IS MADE IN THE
NAVAL CEMETERY.

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| The remains yesterday were taken IN
] charge of by the authorities at the
| Naval Academy, who arranged for the
body of the old man to have a
proper burial
The body was prepared for burial
| by Z Undertakers Woolley & Field
meyer. The Rev. II. 4. CLARK, Chap
lain at the Naval Academy, conducted
the funeral services The remains
were inferred ia the naval cemetery
| at the Government Farm, opposite
the Naval Academy. a number of
friends of the old man attended the
| funeral this afternoon.
The pAllbearers were six sailors from
the Santee. There were several beau
| tiful floral tributes. One was from
| Martin. MIR james l. Johnson, Mr..
Lewis Martin. Tire flowers were very
beautiful One design was a torpedo
in immortelles with the figu e3 " 1862
indicating the Miantonomah exploit
STORY OF JACKsON's LIFE.
The story OF Jackson's exploit, as
| told by himself some months ago, is
as follows:
81 done what l didbecause there was
| nobody else to do it, and if the gov
Il hDl Etc III W lliuhE GtiOu
| can't help it, he said II was no
more scared than / am right now.
was on the schooner @. Z. Williams,
which joined after the battle of An
tietam. and we were going to Charles
ton, s. O. Then we were ordered 10
Folly River, where TO- 900 of our men
were on FOLLY Island waiting to attack
Morris Island under Colonel Shaw, Of
New York.
The enemy had set torpedoes
/ adrift and they Were threatening 10
blow up our entire fleet The com
| manding officer asked somebody to
volunteer to swim out aud take the
caps off them. l was the only one
who agreed. But this may have
| been because never knew what 1T
was to be afraid. sSome lof the men
at Antietam on the ships would cry
| aud moan and almost faint, they
were 50 scarad- -hnt Lennld heaT tho
| bullets singing on the battlefield or
| rattling around me on the ship with
out caring bit.
| lyon see, / never was married. and
1 | only had my mother, so / dino {
mind. Well, the captain said he
didn't guess he'd ever see me again.
and they all bid me goodby, and l
was taken out in a little boat to
| where the torpedoes had been towed
nearer the shore. Then I got into the
| water and, standing waist deep, un-
capped them. But the ships had
moved off good ways beforehand, so
if they exloded nobody would he
| illed
'From them torpedoes came 1870
pounds of powder each, so You can
know what damage they would done
if left alone For that | was given q
medal ny Congress aud was taken tC
the White House, where the President
shook hands with me, called me q
brave fellow and gave me the letters
of recommendation l told you about.
he said it was one of the most noble
| things he ever heard of. That pleased
me, for ne want no coward himself.
Gideon Wells, secretary of the navy,
also received me ard told me that
| everybody said / was the best shot in
the Charleston feet But that came
! up through something else l did. On
these papers / could get anything 10
the world / wanted. aud to think that
had to get drunk four years ago and
l1se them! / haven't drunk nothing
since could live with an old sol.
dier and share expenses, and get along
| better. tut then we'd both drink, and
4 1 nNn 4 AnAE1AA ENEA ~ Af IL ~ AAs
''I was born here in Annapolis. and
| from the time / was q little boy
| could swim aud rev aud fsh--that
how / made a living after ! left tt'
navy, was by fishing. But I'm TOO
old for that now. When volunteered
was a meuber Of the Fifth Mary laEt
Regiment, in command q C0lCne
Schley. Later / went into the navy
There IL was nv ksmaushiu tFa
every body tslked ahout
Il never failed 70 hit almost any
thing / tried for. Once l Killed f0u
men aud blew the house they we're d
completely down with a 90 pound rin
when we were some distance fron
shore. We had some l3. inch mortars
holding 2l 1-2 pounds Of powder, an
these, when fired six miles az an ele
vation Of IS dergees. would fall wi q
a weight Of l3 tons. 1 used 70 hr
: them and seldom missed. So / sup
pose / have killed a great many men
but don't regret il. for il was war
was never hurt At Antietan mel
were killed all around me, and bul
let passed through my hayeIsack
i | which was fastened 10 NV side, the
through my tin cup and out the han
, | die. That was the closest call l eve
. had
"A fort opened fire on our ship on
Christmas sevef at O'Clock in tn
morning. ! stood on the fo'cas'le fou
hours without anything to take shell
ter behind aud fired steadily withou
receiving even scratch. The Marble
head and Parmee, commanded by Ad
miral Balch, were in that fight an
D helped. but the Huron ran away with
g out firing a gun. und erstand bistor
Q don { say that, but it's a fact.
know. And it was because her con
0 manding officer was afraid, SO | wa
9 told afterward -
? Even as boy Jackson was con sidel
ed remarkably strong and agile. Whe
e the war was first agitated somebod
e put an offending flag on pole in th
: market place of this city and dare
] anyone to bring it down JacBso
climbed it, although IL was heayil
e creased. and came down holding II
q unpopular banner When Uncle SCI
| wanted the tiny bit Of ground Q
d which stood his domicile and he wa
inotified to yacate in order that thel