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his divisio!! led the advance in tiie pursuit of
General Schofield as far as Spriu;^ liill, where he
held the Federal force at bay. but as he was not
supported as planned by Gen. Hood, Schotield
escaped. After the battle of Franklin, Nov. 80,
1S64, in which his cavalry was operating on tiie
flanks of Hood's anny, he led the Confederate
advance to a point only a few miles from the
fortification surrounding the cit}' of Nashville,
and at Murfreesboro he drove the Federal forces
within their intrenchments. His division covered
the retreat of Hood's army toward Atlanta, and
after the fall of Atlanta he held the road to
Macon against the advance of Sherman's armj-.
He tlien commanded a division in Forrest's
cavalry corps in opposing Wilson's raid tlirougli
Alabama and Georgia, March 22 to April 20, 18G5,
and he defeated the Federal force under Generals
Croxton and McCook, and finally surrendered at
Gainesville, Ala., May 9, 1865. At the close of
the war he became interested in stock raising and
cotton planting. He was married, Dec. 15, 1868,
to Selene, daughter of Gen. W. G. Harding, of
Belle Meade, Tenn., and assisted his father-in-law
in the management of the farm. He was the
founder of the Rural Sun, an agricultural jour-
nal; was the organizer and first president of the
National Agricultural congress; president of the
state bureau of agriculture, 1871-75, and fiscal
agent of the bureau. In September, 1898, Presi-
dent McKinley invited him to become a member
of the commission to investigate the workings of
the war department, but he declined. He died in
Bflle:\rea<le, Tenn., Marcli 30. 1903.
JACKSON, William Lowther, soldier, was horn in Clarksburg, Va., Feb. 3,1825; son of William Lowther, grandson of Edward, and great grandson of John and Elizabeth (Cum- mins) Jackson. He studied law with his father; was commonwealth's attorney, member of the Ii:)use of delegates, second auditor and superin- tendent of the state literary fund, lieutenant- governor of the state, and judge of the 19th judicial district of the state previous to the period of the civil war. In 1861 he supported the state in its secession and was made colonel of the 31st Virginia troops subsequently at- tached to the Confederate array. He became a member of the staff of his cousin, Gen. T. J. Jackson, commander of the Valley district, taking part in the campaign of 1802. He was commissioned brigadier-general and recruited a brigade of cavalry which was sul)sequently at- tached to the Army of the Valley District com- manded by Gen. John D. Imboden. He took a prominent part in the skirmishes at New Lou- doun and at the Quaker meeting-house near Lynchburg, Va., June 4, 1864, where he com- manded three brigades, holding in check the
advance of General Hunter in order to give
General Early time to reach Lynchburg with
the second (Stonewall Jackson's old) cori)s from
Richmond. He was attached to Early's corps in
his march on "Wasiiington leaving Lynchljurg,
June 213, Staunton, June 26, Winchester, July 2,
Harper's Ferry, July 4, Boonsboro, Md., July 6,
Frederick, July 9, where he burned Gunpowder
Bridge on the Baltimore and Washington rail-
road, Rockville, July 10, and was in sight of Fort
Stevens, and the dome of thecapitol on Juh' 11.
He tiien retreated across the Potomac into Vir-
ginia and was one of the last cavalry ofticers to
give his parole after disbanding his troops at
Lynchburg, Va., in Maj', 1805. He went to Mexico
with other Confederate ofticers and on his re-
turn in 1866, practised law in Louisville, Kj-.,
where he was judge of the circuit court, 1872-90.
He died in Louisville, Ky., March 26, 1890.
JACOB, Richard Taylor, soldier, was born at the home of his great-grandfather. Commodore Richard Taylor, in Oldham county, Ky., March 13, 1825; son of John Jeremiah (known as Joim I.) and Lucy Donald (Robertson) Jacob; grand- son of Zachriah and Susannaii Jacob, of Ramsey, England, who settled in Maryland in 1740, and of Isaac and Mathilda (Taylor) Robertson, and a descendant from Donald and Rachel (Rogers) Robertson, of Virginia, and from Col. James Taylor, of Carlisle, England, whose daughter mar- ried Ambrose Madison, and was the grand- mother of James Madison, fourth President of the United States, and whose son, Zachary Tay- lor, was grandfather of Gen. Zacharj' Taylor, twelfth President of the United States. He joined an emigrant party, leaving the Missouri river May 11, 1846, for California. On reaching Fort Laramie, he was chosen second in command of the expedition. With eight of the party he reached the frontier of California, Sept. 9, 1846, to find the Californians in rebellion. He raised a company, was elected captain, and joined Fre- mont, serving under him till tiie sun-ender of the Mexican army at Los Angeles. He returned to the United States b}' way of the Isthmus of Pan- ama. On reaching New Orleans in 1847 he offered his services to the government, but failing to receive a commission he returned to Kentucky, where he raised a company of volunteers for the Mexican war, which was not accepted. He went to Washington as a witness in the court-martial of Fremont, and was married Jan. 17, 1848, to Sarah, the third daughter of Senator Thomas H. Benton, and sister of the wife of General Fre- mont. They resided on a farm in Missouri until 1854, when they removed to Oldham county, Ky. He was a Breckinridge elector, 1860, representa- tive from Oldham county in the state legislature, 1859-61, and as a member of the committee on
