'STONEWALL JACKSON'
Sir - Mr Jack Loudan on the radio recently told us that
"Stonewall Jackson's" father came from Birches in Co.
[county?] Armagh, This does not compare with Ben Jackson's
"Life of Stonewall Jackson", in which it is stated that his
grandfather was a colonel in the British Army stationed at
Dungannon in 1795. His son Thomas came from Kent, in
England, to America in 1810. I would be glad if some of your
readers could tell me in what regiment Colonel Jackson
served. - Yours etc.
Sergeant U.S. Army.
An Unsolved Mystery.
In reply to this letter Mr Colin Johnston Robb writes:
There was a Colonel Jackson stationed at Dungannon in
1795 who commanded the North Mayo Militia. He was George
Jackson, of Enniscore, Co [County?] Mayo, who was descended
from Joseph Jackson. of Sneyd Park, Kent, but the pedigree of
his progeny clearly proves that there was no connection
between his family and that of the American General. This
family, now the Jacksons of Carramore [Carrowmore?], Co
[county?] Mayo, were connected with the North Mayo Militia
for generations. The regiment was embodied in 1793, became
No [number?] 3 on the Irish Militia List and later No
[number?] 120 on the United Kingdom List, and in 1881 became
the 6th Battalion on the Connaught Rangers being amalgamated
with the South Mayo Militia in 1889. The uniform was red
faced with yellow.
The late Stonewall Jackson Hare, between the years
1888-1908, conducted many researches in different archives
both in America and here, including the Public Record Office,
Dublin, destroyed in 1922, relating to the family of the
kinsman the General. He discovered an interesting link of
genealogical evidence. In the "Disembarkation List" of 1789
one Thoams Jackson described as the son of Jonathan Jackson,
chandler, of Charlemont, Co [County?] Armagh, arrived on
American soil. Whether he was the forebearer of Thomas
Jonathan Jackson, born January 21, 1824, who graduated at
West Point in 1846, entered the American Artillery and won
his nom de guerrre "Stonewall" at Bull Run as a brigade
commander remains an unsolved mystery of genealogy. It does,
however, cast a ray of colour on Mr. Loudan's claim of a
County Armagh ancestry.
