William Harrison Jackson (1840 - 1865)

Born 20 Nov 1840 in Alabama, United States

Ancestors

Died 30 Apr 1865 at age 24 in United States

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William Jackson served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: 9 September 1861
Side: CSA
Regiment(s): Company K, 16th Louisiana Infantry

Biography

William Harrison Jackson, oldest child of Robert Henry Jackson and Rebecca Trammill, was born 20 November 1840 in Alabama. He enlisted in the Civil War on 9 September 1861, at Camp Moore, Louisiana, and served as a Private in Company K, 16th Louisiana Infantry, CSA. His military record shows him wounded and left at Murfreesboro on 31 December 1863, but was later shown as a prisoner of war captured at Missionary Ridge, Tennessee, on 25 November 1863. He was then sent to Military Prison in Louisville, Kentucky, on 7 December 1863, from there to Camp Chase, Ohio; finally transferred to City Point, Virginia, on 2 April 1863 where he was finally exchanged. Family tradition states that William Harrison Jackson was killed during the Civil War and although this has never been proven, no further record is available on this child.

Memorial Marker

Pine Island Cemetery, Simpson, Vernon Parish, Louisiana, USA ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 04 November 2020), memorial page for William Harrison Jackson (20 Nov 1840–30 Apr 1865), Find A Grave: Memorial #21983204, citing Pine Island Cemetery, Simpson, Vernon Parish, Louisiana, USA ; Maintained by SFC USA RET Duffie and Kathy (contributor 46950425) .

• "United States Census, 1860," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6GV-6QM : accessed 2 July 2015), Wm H Jackson in household of R H Jackson, [Blank], Leake, Mississippi, United States; from "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing p. 153, household ID 1014, NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 803,586.