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John King Jackson

JACKSON, John King, soldier, born in Augusta, Georgia, 8 February, 1828; died in Milledgeville, Georgia, 27 February, 1866. He was graduated with honors at the Columbia university, South Carolina, in 1846, and practised law till the beginning of the civil war. He then raised the 1st Georgia infantry and the Augusta volunteer battalion for the Confederate army, was made colonel of the 5th Georgia regiment in 1861, and subsequently brigadier-general. He commanded a brigade in Bragg's corps at Shiloh, and in August, 1864, took charge of the Department of Florida. After the war he resumed his law practice in Augusta.

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