About James Sthreshley Jackson James Streshly Jackson (September
27, 1823 – October 8, 1862) was a U.S. Representative from
Kentucky and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the
American Civil War. Born in Fayette County, Kentucky, Jackson
pursued classical studies at Centre College, Danville, Kentucky.
He was graduated from Jefferson College, Canonsburg,
Pennsylvania, in 1844, and from the law department of
Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, in 1845. That same
year he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law in
Greenupsburg, Kentucky. During the Mexican-American War, Jackson
enlisted as a private in the 1st Kentucky Cavalry, June 9, 1846;
he was commissioned third lieutenant on July 9, 1846. Jackson
participated in a duel with Captain Thomas Francis Marshall, but
fearing a court martial, he resigned October 10, 1846. Jackson
moved to Hopkinsville in 1859. He was elected as a Unionist to
the Thirty-seventh Congress and served from March 4 to December
13, 1861, when he resigned