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field. Until we read the subjoined extract from the Richmond correspondence of the N. O. Delta, it had been our impression that "the subject of this notice" was killed in the battle. Jackson is well known on all the Southern fields where horse-flesh is put to the test of bottom and speed: James Jackson, of North Alabama, well known in New Orleans, particularly to Territus thereabouts, volunteered as a private, and joined the Fourth Alabama regiment which suffered so severely on the 21st. On the first charge of that gallant regiment. Jackson was shot through the lungs, and when the regiment was pressed back he was left among the killed and wounded. Shortly after, a Yankee approached him and said: "Friend, you appear to be badly wounded; what can I do for you?" Jackson replied, "some water, for God's sake. " The Yankee, in giving him the water, noticed a fine fob chain hooked in his vest, and said, "young man, I see you cannot survive, give me your watch and I will send it