Conrad Feger Jackson
Conrad Feger (Faeger) Jackson (born September 11, 1813 in Pennsylvania , † December 13, 1862 in the Battle of Fredericksburg , Virginia ) was a brigadier general in the US Army in the Civil War .
Life
Jackson worked for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad , a Reading- based railroad company . At the beginning of the Civil War, he joined the US Army in 1861 and was appointed Colonel of the 9th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Reserve Forces. In this capacity he took part in the Battle of Dranesville and from March to August 1862 under the command of George Archibald McCall in the Peninsula Campaign .
In July 1862 he was made brigadier general and commanding the 3rd Brigade of the McCall-commanded division . As such, he took part in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam in September 1862 and eventually fell during an attack at the Battle of Fredericksburg .
See also
literature
- Jackson, Conrad Feger . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 3 : Grinnell - Lockwood . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1887, p. 385 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Conrad Feger Jackson in the database of Find a Grave (English)
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| SURNAME | Jackson, Conrad Feger |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jackson, Conrad Faeger (different spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Brigadier General of the Northern States in the American Civil War |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 13, 1862 |
| Place of death | Fredericksburg , Virginia |