title: One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry: His Experience and What He Saw During the War, 1861-1865 - Collector's Library of the Civil War
author: John H. Worsham
description: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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  Foreword
  
  
  In his will, Colonel Jackson directed his Executors to edit and publish the
  Journals he had kept before and during the Civil War, and in compliance with
  his instructions, I have prepared them for publication. The sketch of his life
  after the Civil War was prepared by the Hon. Edwin W. Jackson of Harrisburg,
  Pennsylvania.
  
  
  As commander of a company, and later of the regiment, Colonel Jackson carried
  a note book in his pocket, and during the halt on the march or the lull
  between charges in the battle, he made notes of the events taking place within
  his observation. He does not give a history of what is in the past, but paints
  a m