342 JACKSON COUNTY. 



He entered it with iiis ever-faithful cavalry, having the proud 

 satisfaction of being the first American officer who in actual 

 command had been within its lines since its fall, in 1778. The 

 following order will show in what estimation Col. Jackson was 

 held by General Wayne, the commanding officer : 



" Head Quarters at Gibbons's, 

 "July 10, 1782. 



"As the enemy may be expected daily to evacuate the town, 

 the troops will take care to be provided with a clean shift of 

 linen, and to make themselves as respectable as possible for 

 the occasion. The officers are particularly called upon to 

 attend to this order, and see it executed in their respective 

 corps. No followers of the army are to be permitted to enter 

 the town until the main body has marched in. Lieut. Col. 

 Jackson, in consideration of his severe and fatiguing service 

 in the advance, is to receive the keys of Savannah, and is 

 allowed to enter the western gate, keeping a patrol in town to 

 apprehend stragglers who may steal in with the hope of plun- 

 der. Marauders may assure themselves of the most severe 

 and exemplary punishment." 



After the war Col. Jackson took up his residence in Savan- 

 nah, and married Miss Mary Charlotte Young, daughter of 

 William Young, an ardent patriot, and devoted himself to the 

 practice of the law, in which he soon became eminent. In 

 July, 1782, the Legislature of Georgia, in consideration of his 

 great and useful services to his country, presented him with a 

 house and lot in the city of Savannah. When elected to the 

 Legislature, with a magnanimity eminently characteristic of 

 him, he laid aside his revolutionary animosity against some of 

 the tories, who were greatly indebted to his exertions in pro- 

 curing for them a release from the penalties of the confisca- 

 tion acts. To induce him to advocate their restoration to citi- 

 zenship, bribes were offered him by some, whose conduct in 

 the war of the Revolution was marked by an extent of flagi- 

 tiousness that admitted of no possible shadow of palliation ; 

 but the high-minded patriot scorned every offer of this charac- 

 ter. Sooner than he would have pleaded, for gold, the cause 

 of treason, he would have submitted his head to the block. 

 In 1784 he became Colonel of the 1st regiment, and in 1786 he 



