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To my Sister afte...)
Excerpt from Tallulah: And Other Poems
To my Sister after her Marriage, To my Sister after her Death, Song of the Barefoot Boy, Bonaventure by Star-light.
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Letter From Henry R. Jackson, of Georgia, to Ex-Senator Allen G. Thurman: With Explanatory Papers (Classic Reprint)
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And calls upon her people to glory with her to-day. Her glory is in her history; her history is the memory of her dead; and this day is consecrate to her Confederate dead. They were guilty of no treason to her. To whom, then, could they be trai tors? Where shall we seek their higher sovereign? Shall we find him in the Federal Constitution '2 Then here was a sovereign smitten to earth by traitor hands, trampled in the dust by traitor feet; but the hands and the feet were not theirs. Do we hold that the men who fought against them were traitors? Not at all.
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The saints of New England sold these slaves to our fore fathers as long as they would buy them, and then sought other markets in South America and began war upon us for keeping them in bondage. They are like the liquor dealer in Nashville who become converted and sold out his stock to another man, and then tried to have him turned out of the church for selling whiskey.
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Henry Rootes Jackson was a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
Background
Jackson was born on June 24, 1820, in Athens, Georgia. His father, Henry Jackson, brother of James, 1757-1806, was a native of Devonshire, England. He migrated to America in the latter years of the eighteenth century and settled in Georgia. After graduation (M. D. , 1802) from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, he became secretary to William H. Crawford, then minister to France, served as chargé d'affaires after Crawford's return, and then began a long service as professor of mathematics in the University of Georgia. He married Martha Jacqueline Rootes of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and Henry Rootes Jackson was their son.
Education
Jackson was prepared for college under his father's tutelage, entered Yale College, and was graduated as an honor man in 1839.
Career
On his return to Georgia, Jackson studied law and began practice in Savannah. Before he was twenty-four he was appointed (1843) a United States district attorney. On the outbreak of the Mexican War, he became colonel of a Georgia regiment and served until the close of hostilities. For a short time (1848-1849) he was one of the editors of the Savannah Georgian and in 1849 he received an appointment to the superior court bench, in which capacity he was engaged until 1853. He resigned to accept appointment as chargé in Austria, and on his promotion to the post of minister resident, served in that position till 1858.
On his return from Europe, he was offered the chancellorship of the University of Georgia, but declined that honor. He was a member of the government counsel in the unsuccessful prosecution of the captain and owners of the slave-ship Wanderer, seized in its attempt to bring African slaves into Savannah. Jackson withdrew from the Democratic convention at Charleston in 1860 when the Southern extremists seceded, became an elector on the Breckinridge ticket, and was a member of the Georgia secession convention of 1861. Upon the organization of the Confederacy, he was appointed to a judgeship in the Confederate courts in Georgia, resigning to accept appointment as a brigadier-general (July 4, 1861). Later in the year he assumed command, with rank of major-general, of a division of Georgia state troops.
After the fall of Atlanta (September 21, 1864), he again became a brigadier in the Confederate army, served under Hood in Tennessee, and was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Johnson's Island and Fort Warren until the surrender. With the coming of peace, Jackson resumed the practice of law in Georgia. In 1885 Cleveland appointed him minister to Mexico, where he remained until his resignation in 1886 because of a disagreement with his government on the question of the Rebecca, a schooner seized by Mexico on the charge of smuggling.
For nearly a quarter of a century he was president of the Georgia Historical Society and deeply interested in the preservation of the materials for the history of the state. He was also for many years a trustee of the Peabody Education Fund. As a supporter of his intimate friend, Joseph E. Brown, he took a vigorous part in state politics being active from the close of the Civil War until his death, though he never sought public office for himself. In 1850 he published a book of verse, Tallulah and Other Poems. His "Red Old Hills of Georgia" is perhaps the best known of his poems. Jackson died on May 23, 1898, in Savannah, Georgia and is buried there at Bonaventure Cemetery.
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Membership
Jackson was a President of the Georgia Historical Society and a trustee of the Peabody Education Fund.
Connections
Jackson was twice married: first, to Cornelia Augusta Davenport of Savannah, from which union there were four children; and second, to Florence Barclay King of St. Simons Island.