Henry R. Jackson
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Henry Rootes Jackson was a Major General in the Georgia militia during the American Civil War.
Jackson was born June 24, 1820, in Athens, Georgia. Before the war, he served as a
lawyer, then as an officer in the Mexican American War, state judge, and as United States ambassador to Austria from 1854 - 1858.
Enlisting in the Confederate army in 1861, he served as a judge in Confederate courts. Promoted in June to brigadier general, he later led troops during the Western Virginia campaign, seeing action at the Battle of Cheat Mountain. In December, he was promoted to major general of state militia for Georgia. Returning to Confederate service in September, 1863, he led a brigade during the Atlanta campaign. He commanded a brigade in William B. Bate’s division in John Bell Hood's Franklin-Nashville Campaign. Jackson was captured at the Battle of Nashville.
After the war, he resumed his law practice and political career, being named as minister to Mexico from 1885 - 1886. He also was a railroad executive and banker. Jackson died May 23, 1898 in Savannah, Georgia and was buried in Bonaventure Cemetery in that city.
Sources
- Warner, Ezra, Generals in Gray, Louisiana State University Press, 1959, ISBN 0807108235.