JACKSON
JACKSON
charge d'aflfaires at Vienna, Austria, 1853-54, and
minister resident, 1854-58. He resigned in Jul}',
1858, and was selected by the government to
assist the U.S. district-attorney in prosecuting
the owners of the Wanderer and other shive trad-
ers, which occupied
his time for two
years. His part in
these trials secured
for him the disfavor
of the people of
Georgia and consider-
ably affected his law
practice. He was
offered the cliancel-
lorship of the Univer-
sity of Georgia in 1859
on the resignation
of President Alonzo
Church, but declined
the position. He
was a delegate to the
Democratic national convention which met at
Charleston, S. C, April 23, and Eichmond, Va.,
June 21, 1860; and was an elector-at-large for
Georgia on the Breckinridge and Lane ticket. In
1861, when Georgia seceded from the Union, he
commanded the state forces, having been com-
missioned major-general by Governor Brown.
He was appointed a judge of the Confederate
courts and served in this capacity from March
till July, 1861. He joined the Confederate army
in July, 1861, and was assigned to the armj' oper-
ating against McClellan in western Virginia. He
succeeded Gen. Robert Selden Garnett, killed at
Carrick's Ford, July 13, 1861, to the command of
the army, and made strenuous efforts with his
small force of less than 3000 men to overcome the
victorious army of General McClellan, but was
obliged to fall back. He commanded the Georgia
state troops on the coast the latter part of 1861;
having accepted the commission of major-gen-
eral of state troops, and in 1862 he joined the
Confederate army under Hood and succeeded
Gen. C. H. Stevens in the command of his brig-
ade in Walker's division, Hardie's corps, Johns-
ton's army of Tennessee in the Atlanta cam-
paign, May to September, 1804. He commanded
a brigade in Bate's division. Hood's Army of
Tennessee in the battles of Franklin, Tcnn.
Nov. 30, 1864, and Nashville, Dec. 15-16, 1864.
At Nashville he was taken prisoner with his
entire command and was prisoner of war till
the close of the war, when he resumed the prac-
tice of law at Savannah, Ga. He was appointed
U.S. minister to Mexico by President Cleveland,
March 23. 1885, but resigned a few months later
as he could not sustain the administration in the
matter of the seizure of the American vessel
Rebecca. He was a trustee of the Peabody Edu-
cation fund, 1875-88; president of the Georgia
Historical society, 1875-98; trustee of the Univ-
ersity of Georgia, 1863-72; president of the Tel-
fair Art academy, Savannah, and director of the
Central Railroad and Banking company, 1894-98.
He received the honorary degrees of A.M. in 1848
and LL.D. in 1893 from the University of Georgia.
He is the author of: Talulah and other Poems
(1850) and of several separate poems, including
Tlie Old Bed Hills of Georgia, which he wrote
while serving in the Mexican war, 1846-47. He
died in Savannah, Ga.,:May 23. 1898.
JACKSON, Howell Edmunds, jurist, was born at Paris, Tenn., April 8, 1832; son of Dr. Alex- ander and Mary W. (Hurt) Jackson. He was graduated from the West Tenufssee college in 1849; from the University of \'irginia in 1854, and from the law department of Cum- berland university, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1856. He practised law in Jackson, 1856- 58, and removed in 1859 to Memphis, Tenn., where he formed a partnership with the Hon. D. M. Currin. At the out- break of the civil war he was appointed re- ceiver for West Tenn- essee of property se- questrated under the Confederate confiscation act, and held the of- fice until the close of the war. When West Tennessee fell into the hands of the Federal forces, he was prevented from joining the army by the necessity of caring for the funds in his custody, no other person being authorized to re- ceive them. After the close of the war he re- turned to Memphis and resumed the practice of law in partnership with B. M. Estes. In 1874 he removed to Jackson, where he formed a law part- nership with Gen. Alexander W. Campbell. In 1875, and again in 1877, by appointment of the governor, he served on the court of arbitration for West Tennessee, a provisional adjunct to the supreme court, to dispose of cases accumulated during the war. He was also several times ap- pointed to serve as special judge of the supreme court. He was elected a representative to the state legislature on the state credit platform in 1880, and after a prolonged contest was elected to the U.S. senate in January, 1881. He served until April 15, 1886. when, on the death of Judge John Baxter, of the U.S. circuit court for the sixth circuit, he was appointed by President
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