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GENERAL JACKSON DEAD. General William H. Jackson, a noted Confederate cavalry leader, and the proprietor of the Belle Meade Stock Farm, died at his home, Belle Meade, near Nashville, Monday afternoon. He was G8 years old, and had been in failing health for more than a year and dangerously ill for several weeks past. He was graduated from West Point in 1856, and went to New Mexico, where he participated in a number of Indian fights with Kit Carson and other scouts. He resigned his commission, however, at the opening of the civil war to enter the Confederate service. Since the war he has devoted himself to agriculture and the breeding of thoroughbred running horses, some of the most noted performers of the American turf having been born at famous Belle Meade. Two children, William H Jackson, Jr., and Mrs. Seline El-liston, survive him.
