Poetry Codex

American

Henry R. Jackson

1820–1898

Henry R. Jackson (1820–1898) was a Georgia lawyer, judge and soldier, a colonel in the Mexican War, later United States minister to Austria and a Confederate general.

Griswold included 2 of his poems in The Poets and Poetry of America (16th edition, Philadelphia: Parry & McMillan, 1855), the anthology from which the poems here are taken.

Poems (2)

  1. My Father
  2. My Wife and Child

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