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Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 1: parentage, and Early years. (search)
m which General Jackson came, was founded in Western Virginia by John Jackson, an emigrant from London. His stock was Scotch-Irish; and it is most probable that John Jackson himself was removed by his parents from the north of Ireland to London, in his second year. Nearly fifty yeae made the name immortal, but of other members of their houses. John Jackson was brought up in London, and became a reputable and prosperous dy County. But after residing for a time in this lovely valley, John Jackson, with his young family, crossed the main Alleghany ridge into Noeptember, putt a period to the existence of my aged grandfather, John Jackson, in the eightysixth year of his age. The long life of this good s and characters of her children, in order that the springs of General Jackson's nature may be the better illustrated, and also that his widefound their way to the extreme West. Each of these five sons of John Jackson was twice married, and left a numerous progeny. There were also