CHAPTER XXXI. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF GEN. W. H. JACKSON, 



EARLY LIFE. 



William H. Jackson was born in Paris, Henry Co., Tenn., 

 Dec. 1st, 1835. His father, Dr. A. Jackson, and his mother, 

 Mary W. Hunt, both natives of Virginia, were married in 

 1829, and removed to West Tennessee in 1830. The only 

 surviving children of this marriage were Wm. H. and 

 Howell E. Jackson, the latter now an eminent lawyer of 

 Memphis, Tenn. 



The subject of this sketch was reared amid good and 

 wholesome precepts in the home circle, and sound instruc 

 tion in the school and church. He gained fast friends for 

 his high spirit and the zeal with which he espoused the cause 

 of the weak or younger children in his schoolboy days. 

 His school broils all originated in his fervor in defending 

 the weak against the strong. Naturally of a sanguine 

 temperament, it required the severe military training of 

 West Point, where he graduated, to subdue this fiery spirit. 

 The future of his manhood was early foreshadowed in the 

 impetuous youth, noted more for energy of action than 

 intensity of application. His fondness for field sports often 

 conflicted with the strict discharge of the duty required in 



his early school days. 



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