Ambrose F. Jackson
Representing: Union
G.A.R Post
- Maj. Johnson Post 114, Prosser, Benton County, WA.
Unit History
- 7th Rhode Island Infantry G
Family History
Created by Brian
Ambrose F. Jackson
- Birth
- 15 Apr 1833
- Death
- 21 Jul 1906 (aged 73)
- Burial
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Prosser, Benton County, Washington, USA
- Plot
- Blk. 2, Lot 4A, Gr.
- Memorial ID
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Enlisted from Providence, Rhode Island on 22 August 1862; mustered in on 4 September 1862, Company G, 7th Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a Private.
"Chapter I. Wounds and Injuries of the Head…trephining for gunshot fracture resulted in recovery. Case. — Private Ambrose F. Jackson, Co. G, 7th Rhode Island Volunteers, received, at the battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13th, 1862, a gunshot injury of the cranium. He was admitted to the hospital of the 2d division, Ninth Corps; on December 20th, sent to Carver Hospital, Washington, and on January 6th, 1863, to Lovell Hospital, Portsmouth Grove, Rhode Island, where he was discharged on June 10th, 1863. On March 7th, 1867, Pension Examiner A. E. Ames reports that the patient had been trephined. He suffered from headache and dizziness, and his memory was so much impaired that he could not recollect the day or the year he was wounded. He recommends that the patient should have a full pension." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part I, Volume II: Surgical History by U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, 1870.
Born at Vermont. A resident of Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island when he enlisted. Mustered in as a Private, 4 Sep 1862. Wounded in action (gunshot) at Fredericksburg, Virginia 13 Dec 1862. Hospitalized and discharged at Portsmouth Grove, Rhode Island on a surgeon's certificate of disability, 8 Jun 1863. He relocated to Preston Lake, Renville County, Minnesota by 1870 where he farmed. He married Alice Winter in Minnesota about 1873. By 1890 he was a resident of Township 12, Oklahoma Territory where he continued farming. By 1904 he settled at Benton County, Washington where he was a charter member of Maj. Johnson Post No. 114 at Prosser, Benton County, Washington. He served the post as Commander in 1904 and 1905. He died at Prosser, Washington.
Cemetery
Buried at Prosser Cemetery
Row: Cemetery Lot Blk 2 Cemetery Section Lot 4A