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was distinguished by high moral courage, as well as professional ability, and he was regarded as one of the leading jurists of the State. He was a descendant of John Jackson, an Irishman who settled in Maryland about 1748, and twenty years later removed to the Buckhannon river region, western Virginia. His son Edward was the grandfather of Judge William L. Jackson, also of Gen. Stonewall Jackson. His elder son, George, member of Congress, was the ancestor of John G. Jackson, M. C., Gen. John J. Jackson, U. S. A., a famous Whig leader, and Jacob J. Jackson, governor of West Virginia. The younger son of the original settler was Edward, whose son, Col. William L. Jackson, married Harriet Wilson, and became the father of Judge William L. Jackson. Jonathan, another son of Edward, was the father of the immortal Stonewall Jackson. Brigadier-General Albert Gallatin Jenkins Brigadier-General Albert Gallatin Jenkins was born in Cabell county, Va., November 10, 1830, and was educated a
l the Southwestern States will concur in the propriety of perpetuating the policy of river blockade, which has been inaugurated just at the right time for us.--The States above us cannot reasonably complain that the navigation of the Mississippi river is not free to them, when they have been the first to interrupt it; and they must expect that the example they have set us will be followed by the South renewing the blockade as soon as it shall be suspended by them. The same paper says: The steamer H. D. Mears arrived yesterday afternoon from Vicksburg, having on board tour military companies from Arkansas, as follows: Etonia Guards, Capt. Martin, from Pulaski county, numbering 70 men; Crockett Guards, Capt. Crockett, Arkansas county, numbering 116 men; DeWitt Guards, Capt. Quartermans, Arkansas county, numbering 70 men; Monticello Guards, Capt. Jackson, Drew county, numbering 103 men. These companies make a handsome and imposing appearance, and are en route for Lynchburg.
Smooth bore muskets-old Virginia rifle and Sabre. It is the opinion of many experienced officers of the regular service that the smooth bore musket is a better weapon for volunteers than the rifled musket. This is said to have been the opinion also of Gen. Jackson, who was something of a judge of guns. Although its range is less, and its accuracy when firing at small objects is not so great as a rifled musket in the hands of a good rifle shot, yet, in firing at masses at ordinary range and with unpracticed troops, it is more efficient, in as much as it can be loaded with more rapidity, does not foul, carries both ball and buckshot, and is not so delicate and so liable to get out of order as the Minnie musket. The old Virginia rifle, which has been cast into the shade of late by what are called "improved arms," has been found to be identical with the new English rifle which is so highly approved in Europe. After all the progress made in weapons of destruction, there is non
The traitors in Council. Wheeling,May 13.--The city has been wild with excitement all day. The Federal flag is flying from all the principal buildings in town. The Convention [of traitors] met at 11 o'clock; and after appointing a Committee on Credentials, adjourned till 3 P. M. On re-assembling, the Committee reported favorably on the admission of delegates from twenty-five counties. Permanent officers were appointed, and a Committee on State and Federal Relations. A discussion took place between Gen. John J. Jackson, of Wood, and John S. Carlile. The former thought a division of the State premature; but Carlile said we must have immediate and prompt action. We want, said he, no paper resolves. The Convention adjourned until to-morrow. The ceremony of hoisting the National flag over the Custom-House was imposing. Thousands of people gathered about the building. National airs were sung, and speeches made by Carlile and others.
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], The vote on the Ordinance of Secession. (search)
, Thomas F. Goode, Robert H. Turner, F. L. Hale, Franklin P. Turner, Cyrus H John Tr, L. S. Hall, Edward Waller, Lewis Harvie, Robert H. Whitfield, James P. Holcombe, Samuel C. Williams, John Hughes, Henry A. Wise, p H n Samuel Woods, Lewis D. Isbell, Benj. F. Wysor — ss. Those who voted in the negative are-- John Janney, Pres't J. G. Holladay, Edward M. Armstrong, Chester Huchard, John B. Baldwin, George W. Hull, George Baylor, John J. Jackson, George W. Berlin, John F. Lewis, Caleb B g s William McComas, George W. Brent, James C. McGrew, William G. Brown, James Marshall, John S. Burdett, Henry H. Masters, James Bu ley, Famuel McD. Moore, Benj. W. Byrae, Hugh M. Nelson, John S. Carlile, Logan Osborn, John A. Carter, Spicer Patrick, Sherrard Chamans, Edmand Pendleton, C. B. Conrad, George er R. Y. Conrad, Samuel Price, James H. Cou h, David Pugh, W. H. B. Cus John D. Sh
Bethel, a name suggestive of other thoughts than of slaughter, initiates the campaign in Virginia. Who can tell the long list of engagements that are to follow, unless an unlooked for and providential interposition shall arrest the terrible drama of fratricidal hate and mutual destruction? Have our rulers no arbiter but the a word, and no terms but submission to propose to those who are their brethren? Where is the conciliatory and effecting spirit which pervades the last words of counsel that Washington and Jackson left as legacies to their countrymen? We have many other extracts from Northern papers, but the foregoing are sufficient to show how the news was received. The New York Herald says the "rebels" had constructed an entrenched camp, comprising six batteries of rifled cannon and sixty-eight twelve pound howitzers; and in another place the same paper alludes to the "capture of 12,000 rebels," and shouts joyously--"Butler is evidently the right man in the right place"
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], The vote on the Ordinance of Secession. (search)
st be respected and obeyed. Given under my hand as Governor, and under the scal of the Commonwealth, this 14th day of June, 1861, and in the 85th year of the Commonwealth. John Letcher. by the Governor: George W. Munford, Secretary of the Commonwealth. Fol'mate of Conjectural Majorities for and against section in Counties from which no return have been made: for Secession. Against Secession. Accomac486 Brooke700 Buchanan150 Doddridge600 Fancock800 Jackson316 Marion315 Marshall1,800 2,000 Morgan200 Patrick900 Pleasants200 Preston2,170 Randolph168 Ritchie400 Roane200 Taylor700 Tyler400 Warwick100 Wise450 wood1,500 York300 2,8541 Actusl majority for ratification from returne165,577 estimated majorities against ratification from counties not heard officially8,827 total majority 4,756 an Ordinance to Repeal the ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, by the State of Virginia, and to resume a
re hereunto appended. Given under my hand as Governor, and under the Seal of the Commonwealth at Richmond, this 14th day of June, 1861, and in the eighty-fifth of the Commonwealth. John Letcher. by the Governor: George W. Munford, Secretary of the Commonwealth. list of Counties from which no returns of the vote on the Taxation Amendment has been received at the Executive Department. Accomac, Alleghany, Brooke, Buchanan, Doddridgn, Elizabeth City, Hancock Hanover, Jackson, Marton, Marshall, McDowell, Monongalis, Mugan, Patrick, Pleasants, Preston, Ritchie, Roane, Taylor, Tyler, Warwick, Weizel, Wise, wood, and York. an Ordinance to amend the Constitution of this Commonwealth, so as to strike out the twenty second and twenty third sections of the fourth article of the present Constitution, and insert the following in lieu thereof: Taxation shall be equal and uniform throughout the Commonwealth, and all property shall be taxed in proportion to i
ation of the Governor. Present--Messrs. Francis T. Anderson, A. B. Caldwell, Thos.. Bruce, John J. Jackson, B. H. Shackleford, Lemuel J. Bowden, L. H. Chandler, Marmaduke Johnson and Joseph Christian. At half-past 10 o'clock the College was called to order by Mr. John J. Jackson, on whose motion Francis T. Anderson, Esq., was elected Chairman. Mr. Anderson accepted the position tendering thanks for the honor thus conferred, announced his readiness to proceed to business. Mr. Jackson then nominated for Secretary, Col. J. L. Eubank, and the question being put, Col. E. was elected. Mr. Jackson presented from the Secretary of the Commonwealth certain communications, which were handed to the Chairman, to be disposed of. The Chairman announced the receipt of a letteas Bruce of Halifax, Marmaduke Johnson of Richmond city, Lemuel J. Bowden of Williamsburg, J. J. Jackson, Jr., of Wood, F. T. Anderson of Rockbridge, B. H. Shackleford of Fauquier, A. B. Caldwell of O
tutions. But the people are not all cold and selfish politicians. They are not strangers to the warm and genial feeling of patriotism, and though Mr. Summers furnished no fuel for the fisme, there was enough, without his assistance to make it burn brightly in Kanawha. Her people have fled from the icy mountain he stands upon, and are now sympathizing, heart and soul, with Virginia and the South. Some years ago in the Legislature, that talkative, sectional, and irritable General, John J. Jackson, from Wood, who must be as old as Methuselah, and who seems to have been a member of Conventions and of the House of Delegates, off and on, for the present century, uttered his oft-repeated phillipie upon Eastern injustice and Western wrongs.--In the course of his speech he appealed to the East to grant the just claims of the West, and declared that the East could not expect the West to stand up for her institutions if she always turned a deaf ear to the petitions for redress. If, said
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