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CHARLES GREEN JACKSON was born on October 29, 1826, in Perry County, Alabama. He was the oldest son of Abraham Wyche Jackson and Jane F. Crow, the grandson of Reverend Charles Crow, Sarah Harlan, Green B. Jackson and Clara Yeates and the great grandson of John Jackson and Elizabeth Lloyd of South Carolina. Charles' grandfather Green B. Jackson was born on May 6, 1767 in Lexington District, South Carolina but moved to Greene County, Georgia shortly after his father, John Jackson, died in 1794. Green left Georgia for Alabama in 1819 and died in Perry County on November 20, 1849. During his life, Green B. Jackson was quite prosperous. Charles' father Abraham was a prosperous planter, slave owner, and an ordained Baptist Minister. Charles Green was educated in the common schools of Perry County and lived his entire life in the county before joining the Perry Volunteers and sailing for Mexico. He enlisted in the Perry Volunteers on May 25, 1846, at Perryville, Alabama in Perry County. Traveling to Selma, his company commanded by William G. Coleman boarded the steamboat William Bradstreet for the trip down the Alabama River to Mobile where they were mustered into the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers commanded by John R. Coffey. The regiment sailed from Mobile on June 27, 1846, on board the Fashion and landed at Brazos Santiago Island, Texas on July 4, 1846. Jackson served for the next year at Camargo, Tampico, and took part in the siege at Vera Cruz, Mexico. He marched to Alvarado to secure livestock for the army and missed the battle of Cerro Gordo fought on April 18, 1847. At Jalapa, Mexico, the enlistment of the Perry Volunteers expired and General Winfield Scott ordered the regiment to New Orleans where they were discharged on May 27, 1847. Three months after returning from Mexico, he left Perry County and moved to DeSoto Parish, Louisiana with his family. Charles married in Louisiana and fathered two children by his first wife, Mary Ann Cowley, the daughter of James Cowley and Susan Russell. He married twice more to Laura Virginia Oliver and Anne E. Connevey. During the War for Southern Independence, he fought with Company B of the 24th Louisiana Infantry Regiment until that regiment was merged with other regiments to form the Consolidated Crescent Regiment. At the Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana, he was among the Confederates commanded by General Richard Taylor, the son of Zachary Taylor, Charles' commander in Texas and Northern Mexico. Charles had the distinction of serving under both father and son. He was described as 5' 9 " tall, light complexion, gray eyes, and black hair at the age of twenty. Jackson died on September 13, 1911, at Grand Cane in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. He received a pension for his service in Mexico. It amounted to $8.00 a month in 1888 and increased to $20.00 a month by the time of his death. [Mexican War Pensions SC-17323 and WC-15841; J. Hugh LeBaron, Perry Volunteers in the Mexican War 1846-1847 (Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland, 2002) pp. 17-19, 52, 96, 97, 102, 109, 110, 123, 130, 177-180, ]
He is my Great Grand Uncle. Submitted by: J Hugh LeBaron