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James Streshly Jackson (Christian County, Kentucky attorney, soldier, and politician)

b. 1823-09-27 d. 1862-10-08

Christian County, Kentucky, attorney, soldier, and politician. Fayette County, Kentucky, native. Married to Martha "Patty" Buford Jackson in Scott County, Kentucky, in 1847. Father of David Jackson, James Berryman Jackson, Etta Jackson, and Juliet Jackson. Educated at Centre College in Danville. Graduated from Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1844. Graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, with a law degree in 1845. Admitted to the bar in 1845. Served in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment as a private and third lieutenant in the U.S.-Mexican War. Attorney in Greenup County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Greenup County in 1850. Attorney in Christian County in 1860. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in Christian County in 1860. Unionist member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the second Congressional District of Kentucky from March 4, 1861, to December 13, 1861. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as colonel from December 13, 1861, to August 13, 1862. Served in McCook's Corps of the Army of the Ohio (U.S.A.) as brigadier general from July 16, 1862, to October 8, 1862. Killed at the Battle of Perryville on October 8, 1862.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, District 2, p. 158B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, District 2, p. 238.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville, p. 683-84.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, p. 271B.

“Jackson, James Streshly (1823-1862),” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, accessed July 28, 2021, https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/J000019.

“James Streshly Jackson,” Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 3, eds. John Fiske and James Grant Wilson (New York: Appleton, 1889), 388.

"James Streshly Jackson (1823-1862)," Find A Grave, Memorial #5894202, accessed July 28, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5894202.

Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, eds. Mary S. Lockwood and Susan Riviere Hetzel (Washington, D. C.: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1891-1939) vol. 166: 1921, p. 99.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 63.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 960.

William B. Allen, A History of Kentucky, embracing Gleanings, Reminiscences, Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, Statistics, and Biographical Sketches... (Louisville, KY: Bradley & Gilbert, Publishers, 1872).

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Jackson, James Streshly. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197845 (November 12, 2026).

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