The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-21
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States minister to Austria. This po-
sition he resigned in 1858. He was
delegate to the Charleston democrat
ic convention in 1860, where the
great breach occurred that led to Sc
cession and to the war between the
states, and was elector for the state
at large on the Breckenridge and
Lane ticket.
3. He resigned what office to join
the confederate army?
He was appointed judge of the
confederate courts in Georgia in
1861, but resigned in the same year
to accept the rank of brigadier gen.
eral in the army of the confederate
states, his commission bearing date
of July A, 1861.
4. What did he do after the death
of General Robert S. Garnett?
General Jackson reached the field
of operations to which he had been
assigned just about the time of the
defeat and death of General Barnett,
in West Virginia; gathered together
| at Monterey the defeated and disor-
ganized forces of Garnett, and in a
short while restored their organiza-
ton and discipline and infused into
them a spirit not only of readiness
but of anxiety to enter upon a new
campaign for the recovery of what
had been lost in Northern Virginia.
3. Tell of the advance on Cheat
mountain.
! When Lee made his advance upon
! Cheat mountain in September Jack
sons brigade was in high state of
efficiency. On October 3, 1861, the
| federal forces from Cheat mountain
made an attack upon Jackson's camp
at Greenbrier river, but were repuls-
ed after combat Of about four hours.
6. Under what circumstances did
General Jackson return to Georgia?
Toward the close of autumn Gen
eral Jackson received a telegram
from Governor Brown of Georgia
asking him to accept command of a
division of state troops enlisted for
months. Contrary to the wishes of
! President Davis he accepted this po-
sition and went to Georgia. The first
person to greet him as he entered the
Pulaski house at Savannah was Cen
! eral Lee, at that time commanding
the department of South Carolina
and Georgia. Lee said Il am hap
Ply to meet you here in any capacity,
but l deeply regretted your resigna-
ton from the army. At the date OF
it | was negotiating for you with the
department of war. l asked for but
two men and you were one of them.
| While in command of the state troops
| he at one time prevented an attack
upon Savannah by the rapid coneen-
| tratiOn of his troops near that city.
Z. What did General Jackson de
after passage of the cOnscript act?
Upon the passage of the cOnscript
act the division was turned over to
! the confederacy, leaving General
| jackson without a command. AT
this time he offered to enlist as pri-
vate in the Irish Jasper Greens, in
command of which company he had
| gone to the Mexican war. When
| General H. T. Walker was reappolnt-
| ed to the army General Jackson be-
came a volunteer aide upon his stan
8. How were his services employ
ed during the Atlanta campaign? Tell
of his capture and imprisonment
During the Atlanta campaign Gov
ernor Brown employed the services
of General Jackson in organizing the
state troops that were being assem-
bled for the defense of Atlanta. On
September 21, 1864, after the fall OF
Atlanta, when Hood was preparing
for his march into Tennessee, jack
son was reappointed brigadier gen
eral in the confederate army, and
participated in the bloody battles Of
Jonesboro, Franklin and Nashville.
In the last named his brigade repuls-
ed and held at bay with great slaugh-
ter the enemy in it's immediate front,
while the confederate line was being
broken on each side of it, and fought
until it was surrounded and captur-
| ed General Jackson was taken to
Johnson's Island, thence to FIT. War
rem and was not released until the
close of the war.
9. After the return of peace men
ton the positions OF honor General
Jackson held
From 1875 until his death he was
president of the Georgia Historical
Society; from 1885 to 1887 United
States minister to Mexico; for years
a trustee of the Peabody Educational
Fund, and in 1892 director of the
Central Railroad and Banking Co. of
Georgia. His death occurred at Sa-
vanuah May %, 1898. A Savannah
, correspondent in making ithe an
nonucement, said of him: "A con-
noisseur in art and letters, gloriously
eloquent, of dauntless chivalry and
5 immovable convictions, a man of af-
> fairs, and endowed with exalted
, home qualities General Jackson was
type of the best Southern man
hood"