"Stonewall Jackson"
'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.Close