General Jackson was educated at West Point, and was afterwards a
professor for fifteen years at the Virginia Military School at
Lexington. He is a cousin of the Jackson who was once Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia, and of the Jackson who is now the United States
District Judge for Western Virginia. The family settled early in that
region, and furnished its representative in Congress for about thirty
years, commencing with the administration of General Washington. It
has become a numerous family in the Valley of Virginia and in Western
Virginia, and its members are about equally divided by the present
struggle. After his hard fight of last Sunday with General Fremont, in
which he was compelled to leave the field, he attacked the next day
and drove back an advanced force of two thousand men of the army of
General Shields. Such persistency proves that he has the confidence
of his troops, and he doubtless deserves it. He has been the fighting
hero of the war on the Confederate side.—_Washington Republican._