The Ouachita Telegraph - Charley Jackson Dies

Date: Jul 2000
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>

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The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, July 30, 1875
Page 2, Column 2

Death of a Noted Colored Man.
        We find in the Vicksburg Herald the following notice of the death of
Charley Jackson, a well-known colored man of Madison parish:
        The following letter announces the death of Charles Jackson, a
well-known colored man who was raised in this city, but who was for the last 
thirty years a resident of the parish of Madison, in Louisiana.  There are 
hundreds of people in this city who will remember Charlie, first as the personal
servant of Dr. Thos. M. Jackson, whose name he adopted, and second, as the
faithful servant, friend, and follower of the late Gen. W.R. Peck, through
all the bloody campaigns in Virginia:
                                                OMEGA; LA., July 21st, 1875,
        EDITOR HERALD:  This evening, was laid in their last resting place,
the remains of poor Charley Jackson, the true and faithful friend of all whom it
was his lot to serve.
        Few colored men are more widely known than was Charley, and none
have left a name that will be more kindly remembered.  To thousands who follow the
standards of Lee and Jackson he was well known, not one of whom will hear of
his death without feeling a pang of sorrow cross his breast.
        May his last sleep be peaceful, and in the spirit land may the
welcome plaudit greet him "well done, good and faithful servant."               R.
        Charley Jackson was well known to the writer.  As the Herald states,
he was the servant of Dr. Jackson, whom he accompanied to California, during the
gold fever and there remained a servant, although free under the laws of
that territory, returning to Lousiana with the Doctor, by whom, we believe,
he was sold to the late Gen. Peck.  Charley was Gen. Peck's servant in the
Virginia army.  Between the two existed the warmest attachment as master and
servant.  Charley had hundreds of opportunities to cross the lines and be
free, but nothing could induce him to abandon his master.  We met the two
after the war, in 1868, at Omega, Gen. Peck's plantation, and from the
General learned that it was to his former faithful servant he was indebted
for the means to supply a few wants at the end of the war which had
completely bankrupted the former master and possessor of of (sic) a splendid
estate and had placed the servant in a condition to supply these wants.

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