William Hicks Jackson

William Hicks "Red" Jackson (1835 – March 30, 1903) was a cotton planter and a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Hicks was born near Jackson, Tennessee, a son of Dr. Alexander Jackson and Mary (Hurt) Jackson. He attended West Tennessee College 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.

When word came of Tennessee's secession, Jackson resigned from the Army and returned to the South to enroll in the Confederate army.

Following the war, Jackson returned to Tennessee and managed his father's cotton plantation. In 1868, he married Selene Harding, and co-managed his father-in-law's estate, "Belle Meade." In 1886, Jackson and his brother, Howell E. Jackson, took over control of Belle meade following William Harding's death. They raised prize race horses.

William H. Jackson died at Belle Meade in 1903 and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee.