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Brigadier-Generals of Western Virginia.
Brigadier-General William Lowther Jackson
Brigadier-General William Lowther Jackson was born at Clarksburg, Va., February 3, 1825.
He was educated for the legal profession and was admitted to the bar in 1847, soon afterward being elected to the office of commonwealth attorney for his native county.
His career as a jurist and public official during the ante-war period was prominent and distinguished.
He was twice elected to the Virginia house of delegates, served twice as second auditor of the State, and superintendent of the State library fund; held the office of lieutenant-governor one term, and in 1860 was elected judge of the Nineteenth judicial circuit of the State.
He left the bench early in 1861 to enlist in the Virginia forces as a private, and was rapidly promoted.
In May, 1861, Major Boykin, writing from Grafton, recommended that General Lee appoint Judge Jackson to military command at Parkersburg, as a gent