Civil War Service
Jackman chose to follow the Confederate cause in 1861, and entered the Missouri State Guard. The next year he was appointed the colonel of the 7th Missouri Infantry Regiment, and in May 1862 he led cavalry troops in the raid of Neosho, Missouri. On August 16 Jackman fought at the Battle of Lone Jack, where he led troops that helped capture the Union forces occupying Lone Jack, Missouri, and on August 31 he was given command of the 16th Missouri Infantry.
Jackman would serve in the Western Theater, mainly participating in irregular guerilla style tactics against Union targets. By the fall and winter of 1862 Jackman had successfully recruited enough troops to aid the regular Confederate Army raids into Missouri. On January 11, 1863, his men entered Union-held Columbia, hoping to free Confederates in the city's jail, but the attempt failed. On April 23 Jackman and his troopers kidnapped Missouri Militia (Union) Brig. Gen. Thomas J. Bartholow and then set up camp at Glasgow. On June 1 Jackman's small command encountered and defeated a group of Federal cavalry, where he reportedly shot the leader of the Union horsemen.
In May 1864 Jackman and his men entered Arkansas and were based near the Boston Mountains in the northwest part of the state. By June he had recruited a cavalry regiment that was to be called "Jackman's Missouri Cavalry" which was added to Brig. Gen. Joseph Shelby's cavalry division of Maj. Gen. Sterling Price's Army of Missouri in the Trans-Mississippi Department. That fall Jackman's command (a cavalry brigade consisting of two regiments and two battalions of raw recruits) participated in Price's Raid. During the first stages of the raid Jackman led the attack and capture of Union-held Glasgow.
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