Jacob

the Vicksburg defense and the Meridian cam-
paign of February 1864. Later he led the left
wing of Johnston's army in defense of Atlanta.
In Hood's ill-fated Tennessee campaign Jack-
son's division was a part of Forrest's corps and
covered the retreat. In February 1865 Jackson
was in command of all Tennessee cavalry and of
a Texas Brigade. At the end of the war he was
the Confederate commissioner for the parole of
troops in Alabama and Mississippi. His career
was marked by boldness and celerity of move-
ment and high courage in action—qualities which
led twice to successorship to commands that had
been those of his chief, General Forrest. He was
known to his soldiers as "Red Fox" Jackson.

At the close of the war, Jackson took charge
of his father's large cotton plantations. In De-
cember 1868 he married Selene, daughter of
Gen. William G. Harding, of Belle Meade near
Nashville, and joined General Harding in the
further development of his estate as a nursery
of thoroughbred horses. After the death of
Harding in 1886, he and his brother, Judge
Howell Edmunds Jackson [<?.#.], conducted the
Belle Meade establishment in partnership and
brought it to first rank in the South. Later
Richard Croker of New York acquired a half-
interest, but in a short time he resold to Jackson.
Among the horses which, in stud, gave to Belle
Meade an international reputation were Bonnie
Scotland, Iroquois, Inquirer, Inspector, Great
Tom, and Luke Blackburn. Jackson's interest
and leadership in agricultural affairs were dem-
onstrated by his presidency of many organiza-
tions, among them the National Agricultural
Congress and the Tennessee Bureau of Agricul-
ture. He died at Belle Meade.

[W. W. Clayton, Hist, of Davidson County, Tenn.
(1880); John Woolridge, Hist, of Nashville, Tenn.
(1890); Confed. Mil. Hist. (1899), VIII, 316-17; J.
B. Lindsley, The Mil Annals of Tenn. (1886) ; M. J.
Wright, Tenn. in the War, 1861-65 (1908) ; War of
the Rebellion: Official Records {Army}; G. W. Cul-
lum, Biog. Reg. . . . U. S. Mil. Acad. (ed. 1891), vol.
II; Thirty-fifth Ann. Reunion, Asso. Grads. U. S. Mil.
Acad., 1904; Confed. Veteran, May 1903; Nashville
American, Mar. 31, 1903.] S.CW.

JACOB, RICHARD TAYLOR (Mar. 13,
i825-Sept. 13, 1903), Kentucky soldier and
Union sympathizer, was the descendant of John
Jacob, who emigrated from England and settled
in Anne Arundel County, Md., in 1665, and the
son of John Jeremiah and Lucy Donald (Rob-
ertson) Jacob. His father left Maryland about
1806 for Kentucky, where he made a fortune in
real estate and banking. Richard was born in
Oldham County, Ky., at the home of his great-
grandfather, Commodore Richard Taylor, through
whom he was related both to James Madi-

Jacob

son and Zachary Taylor. He attended private
schools and, for a time, Hanover College, Han-
over, Ind, Suffering from ill health, he was sent
to South America in 1844. The next year he be-
gan the study of law in Louisville. As his health
still remained impaired, he set out for California
in the spring of 1846 and arrived on Sept. 9,
after war had been declared against Mexico. He
immediately raised a company of men, became
captain, and joined the forces of John C. Fre-
mont [#.z>.]. In 1847 after Mexican resistance
had ended in California, he returned to Ken-
tucky by way of the Isthmus of Panama and
arrived home in time to raise a company, which
was, however, refused for the new state levy
since the regiment was already filled. About this
time he was called to Washington to appear as a
witness in the court-martial proceedings against
Fremont where he met and married, on Jan. 17,
1848, Sarah, the third daughter of Thomas Hart
Benton and the sister of Fremont's wife. This
marriage led Jacob to move to Missouri, the
home of Benton, where he engaged in farming.
About 1854 he returned to Kentucky and bought
a home in Oldham County, on the Ohio River,
near Westport.

Until this time Jacob's interests had been di-
vided between military affairs and farming, but
in 1859, with the intensification of the sectional
struggle, he became interested in politics and
offered himself as a candidate for the legislature.
He was elected and was continued in that po-
sition until 1863. Though not a secessionist, he
considered himself a Democrat and in 1860 voted
for Breckinridge. When the Kentucky parties
broke up on the question of secession, Jacob
joined the Unionists. In the legislature, as a
member of the committee on federal relations,
he did a great deal to prevent Kentucky's seced-
ing and to keep the state neutral. Although he
agreed with Governor Magoffin's refusal to obey
Lincoln's call for troops, he entered the Union
Army when it became evident that neutrality
was no longer possible. In 1862 he raised the
9th Kentucky Cavalry, became its colonel, took
part in some hand-to-hand engagements, and
was wounded. In 1863 he was inaugurated lieu-
tenant-governor. Like many other Kentuckians,
he felt outraged at the treatment his state was
receiving from the Federal government. He op-
posed the Emancipation Proclamation and made
threatening speeches when the government de-
cided to enroll negroes. In 1864 he announced
his support of McClellan for president and went
to New York City to begin the campaign with
a speech in Cooper Institute. On Nov. n, after
Lincoln's election, he was arrested by Gen. Ste-

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