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Jackson was born in Paris, Tennessee, a son of Dr. Alexander Jackson and Mary (Hurt) Jackson, the daughter of a Baptist minister, both natives of Virginia. At the age of five, his family moved to Jackson, Tennessee, where his father would be elected as a Whig to the state legislature and subsequently as Jackson's mayor. His brother Howell Edmunds Jackson would become a United States Supreme Court Justice.

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  • Jackson was born in Paris, Tennessee, a son of Dr. Alexander Jackson and Mary (Hurt) Jackson, the daughter of a Baptist minister, both natives of Virginia. At the age of five, his family moved to Jackson, Tennessee, where his father would be elected as a Whig to the state legislature and subsequently as Jackson's mayor. His brother Howell Edmunds Jackson would become a United States Supreme Court Justice.
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  • Jackson was born in Paris, Tennessee, a son of Dr. Alexander Jackson and Mary (Hurt) Jackson, the daughter of a Baptist minister, both natives of Virginia. At the age of five, his family moved to Jackson, Tennessee, where his father would be elected as a Whig to the state legislature and subsequently as Jackson's mayor. His brother Howell Edmunds Jackson would become a United States Supreme Court Justice. He attended West Tennessee College (now Union University) before accepting an appointment to the United States Military Academy. He graduated from West Point in 1856 and was brevetted as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He studied at the cavalry school at Carlisle Barracks and joined the Regiment of Mounted Rifles . He served on frontier duty at Fort Bliss in Texas in 1857, and engaged in a skirmish with Kiowas near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory. He participated in the Comanche and Kiowa Expedition of 1860.
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