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388 till the summer of 1858, when he resigned. Shortly after his return to Savannah he was appointed by the U. S. government associate counsel with the district attorney for Georgia in the prosecution of the persons connected with the importation of slaves on "The Wanderer," and was actively engaged for two years in this work. In December, 1858, he was elected chancellor of the University of Georgia, but after some correspondence retired from the office. He was appointed major-general to command the forces of Georgia after the passage of the ordinance of secession, and was judge of Confederate courts from 20 March, 1861, till 17 Aug., 1861, when he retired to accept the commis- sion of brigadier-general in the Confederate army. In December, 1861, he was appointed major-general of a division of Georgia troops in the field, was re- appointed brigadier - general in the Confederate army in 1863, and assigned a command on the up- per Potomac. He was under Hood in his expedi- tion to Tennessee in the autumn of 1864. partici- pated in the battles of Franklin and Nashville, and was taken prisoner, with his entire command, at the latter place. As a prisoner of war he was taken first to Johnson's island, and then to Fort Warren, where he remained till the end of the war. After his liberation he resumed the practice of law at Savannah. He was appointed U. S. minister to Mexico on 23 March, 1885, but resigned, 30 June, 1885, and withdrew from office in the following October. He has been president of the Georgia historical society, Savannah, trustee of Telfair academy of arts and sciences in that city, and on 8 Oct., 1875, was made a trustee of the Peabody education fund. He is the author of " Tallulah, and Other Poems " (Savannah, 1851). — James's grandson, James, jurist, b. in Jefferson county, Ga., 18 Oct., 1819 ; d. in Atlanta, Ga., 13 Jan., 1887, was graduated at the University of Georgia in 1837, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1840. He was in the legislature in 1840-'l, and was elected secretary of the senate of Georgia, which office he held for one year. He was elected judge of the superior court in 1846, and remained on the bench till 1859, when he resigned, having been chosen as a Democrat to congress, where he served until Georgia withdrew from the Union. He was then made judge-advocate of Stonewall Jackson's corps of the Confederate army, and served until the close of the civil war. He afterward practised law at Macon, was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Georgia in August, 1875, and chief justice in 1879, which office he held till his death. He was a delegate to every conference of the Methodist church after the admission of lay delegates, and was a delegate to the oecumenical conference in London. Judge Jackson was a strong advocate of the union of the northern and south- ern Methodist churches. He was for many years a trustee of the University of Georgia.

JACKSON, James Caleb, author, b. in Manlius, Onondaga co., N. Y., 28 March, 1811. He was edu- cated at the Chittenango polytechnic institute, and was a farmer till 1838, when he entered the service of the Massachusetts anti-slavery society as a lec- turer. In 1840 he left the field to become corre- sponding secretary of this society, which place he held till 1842, becoming in that year editor of the " Madison County Abolitionist," at Cazenovia, N. Y. In the autumn of 1844, together with Abel Brown, of Troy, he purchased the Albany " Patri- ot," and he edited and managed it till 1847, when failing health compelled him to relinquish journal- ism. In the autumn of 1847 he founded a hydro- pathic institute at the head of Skaneateles lake, N. Y., and until 1858 was its principal proprietor and physician. In that year he founded " Our Home Hygienic Institute at Dansville, Living- ston co., N. Y., which claims to be the largest in- stitution of the kind in the world. Dr. Jackson has had under his care fully 20,000 patients. He is the author of " The Sexual Organization and its Healthy Management" (Dansville, 1861); "Con- sumption: How to prevent It, and How to cure It " (1862) ; " How to treat the Sick without Medi- cine " (1870) ; " American Womanhood : Its Pecul- iarities and Necessities " (1870) ; " The Training of Children " (1872) ; " The Debilities of Our Boys " (1872) ; " Christ as a Physician " (1875) ; " Morning Watches " (1882) ; and several monographs.

JACKSON, James Streshley, soldier, b. in Fayette county, Ky.. 27 Sept., 1823 ; d. in Perry- ville, Ky., 8 Oct., 1862. He was graduated at Jef- ferson college, Pa., and in law at Transylvania university, in 1845, and began practice. At the beginning of the Mexican war he raised a regi- ment of volunteers, and served for a time as lieu- tenant. While in Mexico he had a difficulty with Col. Thomas F. Marshall, which resulted in a duel, and he resigned to avoid trial by court-martial. He then resumed practice first at Greenupsburg, and afterward at Hopkinsville, Ky., and in 1860 was elected to congress as a Unionist, but resigned his seat in autumn, 1861, and organized for the National government the 3d Kentucky cavalry, of which he became colonel. He took an active part in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Iuka, and Athens, and on 16 July, 1862, was commissioned brigadier- general of volunteers. He commanded a division of McCook's corps, of the Army of the Ohio, at the battle of Perryville, where he was killed. Gen. Jackson possessed great personal attractions, and his impetuosity led him into several duels in addi- tion to the one above mentioned.

JACKSON, John Adams, sculptor, b. in Bath, Me., 5 Nov., 1825; d. in Pracchia, Tuscany, 30 Aug., 1879. He was apprenticed to a machinist in Boston, where he gave evidence of talent by model- ling a bust of Thomas Buchanan Read. He studied linear and geometrical drawing in Boston, gave much time to crayon portraits, and then went to Paris, where he studied under Suisse. In 1858 he went to New York, and remained there till 1860, when he returned to Florence, which was afterward his home. His portrait busts include those of Daniel Webster (1851) ; Adelaide Phillips (1853); and Wendell Phillips (1854). His ideal productions are noted for their anatomical accuracy and graceful treatment. These include " Eve and the Dead Abel" (1862); "Autumn"; "Cupid String- ing his Bow " ; " Titania and Nick Bottom " : " The Culprit Fav " (many times repeated) ; " Dawn " (repeated) ; " Peace " ; " Cupid on a Swan " ; " The Morning Glory" (a medallion repeated fourteen times) ; " Reading - Girl " (1869) ; " Musidora " (Vienna Exposition, 1873); "Hylas" (1875); and " II Pastorello," an Abruzzi peasant-boy with his goat. He designed a statue of Dr. Elisha K. Kane, the arctic explorer, for the Kane monument association (1860) ; a group for the southern gate-house of the reservoir in Central park, N. Y. (1867) ; and the soldiers' monument at Lynn, Mass. (1874). JACKSON, John Davis, physician, b. in Danville, Ky., 12 Dec, 1834; d. there, 8 Dec, 1875. He was graduated at Centre college in 1854, and at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1857, and began to practise in Danville. He entered the Confederate army as a surgeon, served with the Army of Tennessee during the first year, and subsequently with the Army of Northern