Marshall County AlArchives Biographies.....Jackson, James Monroe, Dr. April 12, 1826 - 
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Author: “Memorial Record of Alabama,” Volume 2, published by Brant & Fuller in Madison, WI (1893), pages 495-497

Dr. James Monroe Jackson, one of the oldest and most experienced physicians of 
Marshall county, Ala., was born in Maury county, Tenn., April 12, 1826, and was 
educated at Jackson college, Colombia, in the same state.  In 1843, he came to 
Alabama, and began the study of medicine at Somerville, Morgan county, under 
Dr. William G. Hill, and subsequently attended the university of Kentucky, at 
Louisville, and then the Medical college of South Carolina, at Charleston, 
graduating from the last named institution in 1848.  He then returned to 
Somerville, Ala., where he was in practice until 1856, when he located in 
Guntersville, and has here practiced ever since, standing at the head of his 
profession, until the opening of the Civil war, when he enlisted in a company 
of infantry, organized at Guntersville, by Capt. Isaac Henry.  He accompanied 
this company to Clarksville, Tenn., where he organized Stuart college hospital, 
of which he was made house surgeon, and there remained until the battle of Fort 
Donelson, when he was ordered to that fort by the medical director, and was 
there captured by the enemy.  HE was carried to Camp Chase, and confined from 
February 1826, to April, of the same year; thence he was conveyed to Johnson’s 
Island, and there was made chief surgeon of the Confederate hospital, and 
served both Confederate and Federal soldiers until released, under general 
order in June.  HE then went to Richmond, Va.; soon afterward was present at 
the battle of Cedar Run, and was then ordered to Jackson, Miss., as surgeon of 
post, and to assume charge of the wounded removed to that point from the battle 
field of Perryville, Ky.  After properly caring for these brave unfortunates, 
the doctor was ordered to Port Hudson, La., and remained there until the fall, 
and was then appointed surgeon of the Forty-ninth Tennessee regiment, remaining 
with it until the troops ere ordered to Vicksburg, then returned to Jackson, 
Miss., for a few days, and later, went on to Vicksburg, and remained there 
through the siege.  From Vicksburg he was transferred to Chickamauga, passed 
through that battle, and fought all the way to Jonesboro, on Johnson’s retreat, 
and was in the battles of Atlanta, and Peach Tree Creek, and then at Franklin, 
Tenn.  At the latter point he was left in charge of the wounded, and there 
organized the McNutt hospital, of which he had charge until April, 1863.  When 
the wounded were all disposed of he was sent by the Federals to the military 
prison at Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Ind., where he was held until the 
surrender at Appomattox, and President Lincoln issued his proclamation of 
peace.  After his release, he returned to Somerville, Ala., where his children 
then were, and a few weeks later resumed his practice at Guntersville, with a 
greatly enlarged experience, both in medicine and surgery.  He stands very high 
in the community, and is a master Mason.  The marriage of the doctor took place 
in 1850, to Miss Eliza Wilkinson, daughter of Dr. John Wilkinson, of Augusta, 
Ga., but he had the great misfortune to lose this estimable lady as early as 
1856.  She had borne him three children, of whom two still survive, viz:  James 
L., of Nashville, Tenn., and Alice Lee, wife of Robert McKinney, of Memphis, 
Tenn.  Harbard Jackson, the father of Dr. J. M. Jackson, was a native of 
Madison, Ga., and was all his days a farmer.  He married Miss Martha Gill, and 
by her, became the father of six children, named as follows:  Elizabeth, 
deceased wife of Henderson McDonald, of Maury county, Tenn.; Susan, deceased 
wife of Andrew Culp, of Maury City, Tenn.; Dr. J. Monroe; Joseph T., of Taylor, 
Tex.; Catherine, deceased wife of Mr. Montague, of Perry county, Tenn.  Harbard 
Jackson died in 1844, at the age of fifty-nine years, and his widow the year 
following.  Mark Jackson, the grandfather of Dr. J. M. Jackson, was a native of 
Georgia, was a captain in the war of the Revolution, and died about the year 
1828, at the advanced age of one hundred years.

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