McDowell from the east, and concluded a most daring campaign by the victorious actions of Cross Keys and Port Republic (8th and 9th of June). While the forces of the North were still scattered, Jackson secretly left the Valley to take a decisive part in Lee’s campaign before Richmond. In the “Seven Days” Jackson was frequently at fault, but his driving energy bore no small part in securing the defeat of McClellan’s advance on Richmond. Here he passed for the first time under the direct orders of Robert Lee, and the rest of his career was spent in command of the II. corps of the Army of Northern Virginia. As Lee’s chief and most trusted subordinate he was throughout charged with the execution of the more delicate and difficult operations of his commander’s hazardous strategy. After his victory over Banks at Cedar Mountain, near Culpeper, Virginia, Jackson led the daring march round the flank of General Pope’s army, which against all theoretical rules ended in the great victory of second Bull Run. In the Maryland campaign Lieut.-General Jackson was again detached from the main army. Eleven thousand Federals, surrounded in Harper’s Ferry, were forced to surrender, and Jackson rejoined Lee just in time to oppose McClellan’s advance. At the Antietam his corps bore the brunt of the battle, which was one of the most stubborn of modern warfare. At Fredericksburg his wing of Lee’s line of battle was heavily engaged, and his last battle, before Chancellorsville, in the thickets of the Wilderness, was his greatest triumph. By one of his swift and secret flank marches he placed his corps on the flank of the enemy, and on the 2nd of May flung them against the Federal XI. corps, which was utterly routed. At the close of a day of victory he was reconnoitring the hostile positions when suddenly the Confederate outposts opened fire upon his staff, whom they mistook in the dark and tangled forest for Federal cavalry. Jackson fell wounded, and on the 10th of May he died at Guinea’s station. He was buried, according to his own wish, at Lexington, where a statue and a memorial hall commemorate his connexion with the place; and on the spot where he was mortally wounded stands a plain granite pillar. The first contribution towards the bronze statue at Richmond was made by the negro Baptist congregation for which Jackson had laboured so earnestly in his Lexington years. He was twice married, first to Eleanor (d. 1854), daughter of George Junkin, president of Washington College, Virginia, and secondly in 1857 to Mary Anna Morrison, daughter of a North Carolina clergyman.
That Jackson’s death, at a critical moment of the fortunes of the Confederacy, was an irreparable loss was disputed by no one. Lee said that he had lost his right arm, and, good soldiers as were the other generals, not one amongst them was comparable to Jackson, whose name was dreaded in the North like that of Lee himself. His military character was the enlargement of his personal character—“desperate earnestness, unflinching straightforwardness,” and absolute, almost fatalist, trust in the guidance of providence. At the head of his troops, who idolized him, he was a Cromwell, adding to the zeal of a fanatic and the energy of the born leader the special military skill and trained soldierly spirit which the English commander had to gain by experience. His Christianity was conspicuous, even amongst deeply religious men like Lee and Stuart, and penetrated every part of his character and conduct.
See lives by R. L. Dabney (New York, 1883), J. E. Cooke (New York, 1866), M. A. Jackson (General Jackson’s widow) (New York, 1892); and especially G. F. R. Henderson, Stonewall Jackson (London, 1898), and H. A. White, Stonewall Jackson (Philadelphia, 1909).
JACKSON, WILLIAM (1730–1803), English musician, was
born at Exeter on the 29th of May 1730. His father, a grocer,
bestowed a liberal education upon him, but, on account of the
lad’s strong predilection for music, was induced to place him
under the care of John Silvester, the organist of Exeter Cathedral,
with whom he remained about two years. In 1748 he went to
London, and studied under John Travers, organist of the king’s
chapel. Returning to Exeter, he settled there as a teacher and
composer, and in 1777 was appointed subchanter, organist, lay-vicar
and master of the choristers of the cathedral. In 1755
he published his first work, Twelve Songs, which became at once
highly popular. His next publication, Six Sonatas for the Harpsichord,
was a failure. His third work, Six Elegies for three voices,
preceded by an Invocation, with an Accompaniment, placed him
among the first composers of his day. His fourth work was
another set of Twelve Songs, now very scarce; and his fifth work
was again a set of Twelve Songs, all of which are now forgotten.
He next published Twelve Hymns, with some good remarks upon
that style of composition, although his precepts were better
than his practice. A set of Twelve Songs followed, containing
some good compositions. Next came an Ode to Fancy, the words
by Dr Warton. Twelve Canzonets for two voices formed his
ninth work; and one of them—“Time has not thinned my
Flowing Hair”—long held a place at public and private concerts.
His tenth work was Eight Sonatas for the Harpsichord,
some of which were novel and pleasing. He composed three
dramatic pieces,—Lycidas (1767), The Lord of the Manor, to
General Burgoyne’s words (1780), and The Metamorphoses, a
comic opera produced at Drury Lane in 1783, which did not
succeed. In the second of these dramatic works, two airs—“Encompassed
in an Angel’s Form” and “When first this
Humble Roof I knew”—were great favourites. His church
music was published after his death by James Paddon (1820);
most of it is poor, but “Jackson in F” was for many years
popular. In 1782 he published Thirty Letters on Various Subjects,
in which he severely attacked canons, and described William
Bird’s Non nobis Domine as containing passages not to be
endured. But his anger and contempt were most strongly
expressed against catches of all kinds, which he denounced
as barbarous. In 1791 he put forth a pamphlet, Observations on
the Present State of Music in London, in which he found fault
with everything and everybody. He published in 1798 The
Four Ages, together with Essays on Various Subjects,—a work
which gives a favourable idea of his character and of his literary
acquirements. Jackson also cultivated a taste for landscape
painting, and imitated, not unsuccessfully, the style of his friend
Gainsborough. He died on the 5th of July 1803.
JACKSON, a city and the county-seat of Jackson county,
Michigan, U.S.A., on both sides of the Grand River, 76 m. W.
of Detroit. Pop. (1890), 20,798; (1900), 25,180, of whom
3843 were foreign-born (1004 German, 941 English Canadian);
(1910 census) 31,433. It is served by the Michigan Central,
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, the Grand Trunk and
the Cincinnati Northern railways, and by inter-urban electric
lines. It is the seat of the state prison (established 1839).
Coal is mined in the vicinity; the city has a large trade with
the surrounding agricultural district (whose distinctive product
is beans); the Michigan Central railway has car and machine
shops here; and the city has many manufacturing establishments.
The total factory product in 1904 was valued at
$8,348,125, an increase of 24.4% over that of 1900. The municipality
owns and operates its water-works. The place was
formerly a favourite camping ground of the Indians, and was
settled by whites in 1829. In 1830 it was laid out as a town,
selected for the county-seat, and named Jacksonburg in honour
of Andrew Jackson; the present name was adopted in 1838.
Jackson was incorporated as a village in 1843, and in 1857 was
chartered as a city. It was at a convention held at Jackson
on the 6th of July 1854 that the Republican party was first
organized and so named by a representative state body.
JACKSON, a city and the county-seat of Hinds county,
Mississippi, U.S.A., and the capital of the state, on the W. bank
of the Pearl River, about 40 m. E. of Vicksburg and 185 m. N.
of New Orleans, Louisiana. Pop. (1890), 5920; (1900), 7816,
of whom 4447 were negroes. According to the Federal census
taken in 1910 the population had increased to 21,262. Jackson is
served by the Illinois Central, the Alabama & Vicksburg, the
Gulf & Ship Island, New Orleans Great Northern, and the Yazoo
& Mississippi Valley railways, and during the winter by small
freight and passenger steamboats on the Pearl River. In Jackson
is the state library, with more than 80,000 volumes. The new
state capitol was finished in 1903. The old state capitol, dating
from 1839, is of considerable interest; in it were held the secession
