Andrew Martin Jackson

In 1860 he was a 37 year old farmer at Dirt Town Valley in Chattooga County, GA. He enlisted at Subligna in Chattooga County, GA on 25 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 35th Georgia Infantry.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 18 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was afterward with his company through at least the end of 1864, and was discharged on a medical Certificate of Disability on 10 February 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was again farming at Dirt Town, GA. By 1900 he was a farmer in Collin County, TX and he was retired and living with daughter Nancy Ann and son Joseph in Van Alstyne, Grayson County, TX in 1910.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates in Frederick List. 2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Nancy Ann Lawrence (1823-1899) and they had at least 12 children and adopted one more.

His oldest son John was also in Company I and captured at Frederick in September 1862. 2nd son Joseph McCracken Jackson (1845-1935) enlisted in the same company in January 1864 and was paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA in April 1865.

12/17/1819; Ashland, GA

12/24/1918; Van Alstyne, TX; burial in Warden Cemetery, Weston, TX