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James S. Jackson

American politician (1823–1862)

Field	Value
name	James S. Jackson
birth_name	James Streshly Jackson
birth_date
death_date
birth_place	Fayette County, Kentucky, U.S.
death_place	Boyle County, Kentucky, U.S.
placeofburial	Riverside Cemetery
Hopkinsville, Kentucky, U.S.
placeofburial_label	Place of burial
image	JasSJackson.jpg
image_size	250
allegiance	United States
branch
Union Army
serviceyears	1846; 1861-1862
rank	[[File:Union Army brigadier general rank insignia.svg	35px]] Brigadier General
commands	3rd Kentucky Cavalry

battles

Hopkinsville, Kentucky, U.S. Union Army

10th Division, Army of the Ohio

Mexican-American War
American Civil War
- Battle of Shiloh
- Siege of Corinth
- Battle of Perryville

James Streshly Jackson (September 27, 1823 – October 8, 1862) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Biography

Born in Fayette County, Kentucky, Jackson pursued classical studies at Centre College, Danville, Kentucky. He graduated from Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1844, and the following year from the law department of Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky. He was admitted to the bar and began practicing law in Greenupsburg, Kentucky.

During the Mexican–American War, Jackson enlisted on June 9, 1846, as a private in the 1st Kentucky Cavalry; he was elected a third lieutenant one month later. He participated in a duel with Captain Thomas Francis Marshall; fearing a court martial, he resigned from the Army on October 10, 1846. In 1859, he moved to Hopkinsville from Greenupsburg. He was elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-seventh Congress and served from March 4 to December 13, 1861, when he resigned to enter the Union Army.

Jackson raised a cavalry company and was elected colonel of the 3rd Kentucky Cavalry when it was formed on December 13, 1861. He was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers on July 16, 1862. Jackson was placed in command of the 10th Division in the Army of the Ohio. He was killed in action on October 8, 1862, during the Battle of Perryville. He was buried at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, but was reinterred on March 24, 1863, at Riverside Cemetery in Hopkinsville.

References

Bibliography

Retrieved on 2008-02-12

References

(1863). "Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year: 1862". D. Appleton & Company.

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