Civil War
Although opposed to secession, Jackson served the Confederacy as a receiver of property confiscated from Unionists during the Civil War. His brother William Hicks Jackson was a Confederate brigadier-general.
After the fall of Memphis in 1862, he and his family spent the remainder of the war in LaGrange, Georgia.
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