Death
His health increasingly poor throughout 1862, Claiborne Jackson nonetheless travveled to Little Rock, Arkansas in November of that year for military planning meetings for thr aforementioned new campaign. However, on December 6, 1862 Jackson died from stomach cancer at age 56 in a Little Rock rooming house. At first denied a burial in Missouri by the circumstance of the ongoing war, he was buried in Little Rock's Mount Holly Cemetery. Following the end of the Civil War he was exhumed, and reinterred in the Sappington Cemetery near Arrow Rock, Missouri.
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