Year: 1861

Jackson.

 A correspondent of the Columbus( Gal Sun writes:

 Before leaving Fairfax, l called to pay my respects to Mrs. Susan NJ. Jackson, the widow of James w. Jackson, the martyr who fell in Alexandria, on the 24th of May, in the cause of Southern liberty She resides in neat little cottage near tho Court House, provided for her by Maj w. Thomas, who married sister of her hus- band. She received me with great kind ness, and spoke with deep emotion of the generosity of the Southern people towards herself and family. She has three lovely children with her--all daughters-of the ages of thirteen, ten and seven, one of whom is said to bear a striking resemblance to her father. Mrs. Thomas has two dag uerreotypes of the hero, one of which was taken while he was at work in his garden, with his hat, coat and vest of. 1t Is very striking face, and bears abundant evidence. in every lineament, of good humor gallant try and unshrnking courage. He has the eye of an eagle His features are bold and striking, and his hair is thick and stiff. and stands up like Gen. Jackson's, as if in defiance of all the hats in the world. No physonomist can look upon the " coun- terfeit presentment' without feeling that he was every inch hero, and that his was as gallant a spirit as was ever offered up in defense of his country flag. You will bs glad to learn that his likeness will be null tiplied in due time by every means of art, so that every one may obtain copy who desires it

 There are certain facts connected with the life and death of Jackson which 1 have never seen in print, and which can not fail to interest your readers. He was born in Fairfax county, near the Potomac river, and was 36 years old the 18th of May l He married his wife in Kentucky, while on q visit to his brother, who resides in that | State, and some few years thereafter he re- moved to Fairfax Court, House, where he continued to live until December last. He was the life of the yillage-a generous, open hearted fellow, wholly unselfsh, a great lover of children and young people; always took sides with the weaker party: spoke his own mind fully, though not off, ensively; scorned everything that was little and mean, and feared no man living or dead. You will not be surprised to hear that such a man did not accumulate much of the ''thrift that follows fawing." Fond of society, he leased the Marshall House in | Alexandria, fitted 1t out with new furni- ture and tableware, and removed there the 1st of the present year. He is the same man who cut down the Lincoln pole in De- coquan, in the adjoining county of Prince William, last summer.

 Jackson was asleep in the second story. Ellsworth entered his house (about day break and proceeded to the roof to take down the flag. The servant who aroused him told him that the house was full of Lincoln men, and that some of them had gone up after the flag, and begged him not to leave his room. He rose immediately, and slipping on his pants, seized his dou ble-barre shot gun, at the head of his bed, and had reached the first turn in the stair way leading to the third story, when he met Ellsworth coming down with the flag wrapped around him, and followed by number of Zouaves. Without uttering 8 word--it was enough that his flag had been taken down--Jackson shot him through the heart, the load carrying part of the flag, like piece patching, into the heart itself, where 1t was afterwards found. One of the Zouaves fred almost at the same in- stant upon Jackson, who was standing q little below and looking up at the stair way

 The ball of the Zouave struck him just between the eyes, on the bridge of the nose, and passed out at the back of his head Though in the very article of death, the hero returned the fire of the enemy as he was falling, but without effect the load passing near his head, and burying itself in the wall above. Notwithstanding he was down and dead, the cowardly rascals rush ed upon him, one of them stabbing him with a knife in the stomach and another driving his bayonet through his bo1y and actually pinning it to the floor. In this | position the corpse was kept from early dawn until II o'clock before any of his friends or even his family were allowed either to see 1t or remove it. At one time it was seriously discussed among the enemy whether they should not cut the body into pieces and burn 1t.

 At lenght orders came from Washington to allow the corpse to be removed. It was taken to Fairfax Court House, and thence to the family homestead where he was born, and near which his aged mother re- sides-and there, beneath the trees where he gamboied in infancy, and near the classic Potomac, in whose waters 1t was his wont to bathe, he was buried by the side of his father.

 The old homestead now belongs to MT. Cutts, Northern man, who has volunta- rily fled from the State and taken up arms against the South. The family burying- ground was reserved at the time of tho sale.

 Will not the generous people of the South rescue the birth place and grave of its heroic son from the tread of the cow ardly traitor who owns it, and present 1t to his wife and children? His wife has not the means to purchase it? for all the furniture and other property which they had in Alexandria were burned or broken to pieces by the enemy. What better use could the money which our people are rais- ing for their relief be applied than to the securing of the humble farm where the he- TO now sleeps as permanent home for his , sorrow stricken widow and weeping or- phans?

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