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Henry Rootes Jackson (Chatham County, Georgia, attorney, judge, major general (C.S.A.))

b. 1820-06-24 d. 1898-05-23

Chatham County, Georgia, attorney, judge, and soldier. Athens, Georgia, native. Married to Cornelia A. Davenport Jackson. Father of Henry Jackson, Howell C. Jackson, Davenport Jackson, and Sarah R. Cornelia Jackson. Graduate of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1839. Attorney in Chatham County, Georgia, in 1850. Owned seven enslaved persons in Chatham County in 1850. Attorney in Savannah in 1860. Owned eleven enslaved persons in Chatham County in 1860. Household owned an additional eleven enslaved persons in Chatham County in 1860. Judge for the Confederate District of Georgia from March 20, 1861 to August 17, 1861. Served in the Army of the Northwest (C.S.A.) as brigadier general from June 10, 1861, to December 2, 1861. Served in the Georgia state guard as major general in 1861. Attorney in Chatham County in 1863. Served in the Military District of Georgia (C.S.A.) as brigadier general from September 21, 1863. Commanded Jackson’s Brigade in the Army of Tennessee (C.S.A.) as brigadier general from 1864 to 1865. Captured in Nashville, Tennessee, in December 1864. Prisoner of war at Louisville, Kentucky, in December 1864. Prisoner of war at Johnson’s Island in Sandusky, Ohio, in December 1864. Prisoner of war at Fort Warren, Massachusetts, from January 1865 to July 1865. Signed a loyalty oath to the U.S. government on July 8, 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Georgia, Chatham County, District 13, p. 229B-230A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Georgia, Chatham County, District 13, p. 15.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah District 3, p. 228.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah District 3, p. 52-53.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, p. 352B.

Case Files of Applications from Former Confederates for Presidential Pardons Amnesty Papers, Compiled 1865-1867, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M1003, Roll 0020.

City of Savannah Voter Registers, 1863, Research Library & Municipal Archives, City of Savannah, GA, Film #0223141.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0066.

"General Jackson Dead,” The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD), May 24, 1898.

"Henry Rootes Jackson (1820-1893)," Find A Grave, Memorial #10045, accessed August 6, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10045.

Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, North Carolina Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, Kentucky, Davenport, National #50297, State #498.

Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959).

Citation

Jackson, Henry Rootes. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209318 (November 12, 2026).

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