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conduct, was promoted brigadier-general, and in command of cavalry took part in all the various movements of Generals Hardee, Polk, and Joe Johnston, commanding the cavalry on the left wing in the memorable Georgia campaign.

HIS PART IN THE WAR.

General Jackson is a true gentleman, urbane, self sacrificing, and forbearing to his fellows. He is also a strict disciplinarian, and his command was noted for their dash and daring in the field. While in battle he was ever foremost, his high natural sense of honor, intensified by his early associations and military training, ever led him to exercise a chivalrous forbearance and clemency to those whom the fate of war threw into his power.

While engaged in the service of the South, from what to him seemed an imperative duty, he exercised no feeling of personal hostility to the people of the North, to whom he accorded the same sense of right to battle for principle as he claimed for himself. If all had been actuated by the same humane feelings, how much bitterness would have been smoothed over, and how much misery and suffering would have been obviated. His strong personal attachment to his many old chums in the Federal army, perhaps, aided his strong sense in conducting his share of the struggle upon principles of civilized usage, and with as little severity and harshness as possible.

Among the services performed, was his engagement with the dashing Kilpatrick, at Lovejoys' Station, leading with Forrest the Confederate advance into Tennessee, and covering the retreat of Hood. For this he was recommended for promotion to a division, and was assigned to the com

mand of Forrest's old division, with the Texas brigade added. With this fine command, he operated until the close of the war, when he was assigned by General Dick Taylor, on the part of the Confederates, and General Dennis, of the United States Army, as Commissioner for the parole of troops, at Gainesville, Ala., and Columbus, Miss.

AFTER THE WAR.

The war closed, and with the same resolute purpose that had always actuated his life, General Jackson engaged in agriculture. Taking charge of his father's planting interest, he managed two farms, organizing a mixed force of white and colored laborers, and superintending their work with judgment and profit, thus cheerfully exchanging the excitement of the camp for the quietude of the farm. He went into the new service with ardent, energetic purpose, bringing to bear a quick and observant mind in the new field of employment, which has gained for him a distinction in agriculture not inferior to the fame which he earned for himself in the profession of arms. For three or four years he thus superintended the culture of cotton in West Tennessee. The life of this gentleman since the war has amply disproved the paragraph contained in one of General Sherman's letters to General Grant, at the close of the war, assigning a reason why liberal terms should be granted on surrender: "For," said he, "if we do not pursue this course, such men as Forrest, Mosby, and Red Jackson [the subject of this sketch], who know not, or care not, for danger and its consequences, will break off in command of guerrilla parties, and give the country great trouble."

In December, 1868, he married Miss Selene Harding, the daughter of General W. G. Harding, of Belle Meade, near

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Nashville, Tennessee, one of the most eminent agriculturists and stock raisers of Tennessee. For this happy change of life, habits, and taste, he is indebted to the Lost Cause, to his connection with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and to his marriage, and his consequent intimate association with his father-in-law, one of the most extensive and successful farmers of Tennessee.

THE WARRIOR AS A FARMER.

This rare opportunity General Jackson fully improved, and this improvement, with his enthusiasm in all enterprises inaugurated for the advancement of agriculture, and the elevation of the farmer to his proper position, has been so appreciated that he now fills the offices of President of the National Agricultural Congress, President of the Farmers' Association of Tennessee, President of the Bureau of Agriculture of the State, and President of the Executive Board of the "Rural Sun Publishing Company," a weekly journal devoted to Southern agriculture. He is also Master of the Heart of Oak Grange of Patrons of Husbandry at Nashville, Tennessee.

Since the close of the war, General Jackson has been one of the foremost men in the South in all that tends to elevate the profession, and to unite the North and South as one fraternity, in order that the delvers of the soil might realize their full importance as a great factor in the scale of national power.

The connection of this gentleman with the Farmers' Movement is already a matter of history. It is due to him here, however, to say that, at the meeting of the National Agricultural Congress, at St. Louis, in 1872, he was tendered the presidency of the National Agricultural Congress,

but declined, preferring that the office should go to the North-west. His name as Vice-President for Tennessee, and also his election to the presidency of the association at the second annual meeting at Indianapolis, in 1873, have been given elsewhere in this work, in the history of the Farmers' Movement.

General Jackson has always been firm in the belief (so frequently reiterated in this work as the writer's own opinion) that co-operation, to be successful, must be through the unity in one parent society of every association in the land.

One of the mottoes of General Jackson is, "Festina Lente," which might be translated for the benefit of railroad monopolies, "Go slow up grade." Its literal translation, “Make haste slowly," is applicable to his efforts is this Movement. A convincing debater, a pleasant orator, a will strong for his conviction of right, he does not hold the plow and look back, but drives a steady team straight to the landmark, laying his furrow true and even, and without skips or turnfurrows. This is his conception of "Festina Lente."

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CHAPTER XXXII.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JOHN DAVIS.

EARLY PIONEER LIFE.

The subject of this sketch was born in a log cabin, fifteen miles south of Springfield, Illinois, in the year 1826. When three years of age, his father, Mr. Joseph Davis, removed to Macon County, Illinois, near Decatur, where he still resides.

This removal took place during the Black Hawk war, when settlements in central Illinois were few and far between, when Chicago was a mere trading village, and the whole northern portion of Illinois was an untilled and wild prairie region, except here and there, where a few hardy pioneers had formed settlements. Indians were plenty and on the war path. Troops and prairie scouts were actively engaged in guarding the sparse settlements, or pursuing the savages. Mills were situated at wide intervals, and the sufferings of the hardy settlers were such as to leave a vivid remembrance of those old days.

The winter of 1830-31 will long be remembered by the pioneers of central and southern Illinois, as the winter of deep snows. During two terrible storms in December, the snow fell to the depth of three feet over the surface, and drifted to great heights, covering fences, corn-fields, small stacks, and even the cabins of the settlers. Live stock and