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227	(The Civil War having intervened, Jackson?s properties were not offered for sale until the first Monday of February, 1870. Four parcels were auctioned to the highest bidder at the courthouse door, including Sea Song and Clifton plantations. Roderick Seal purchased the first for $1,000, and the second for $3,650. Seal also bought the other parcels, one of 40 acres for $50 and the other of 80 acres for $ 100.)228
Samuel would never know whether the place at Bayou Macon would be paid off in four years. He died of wounds received at the battle of Chickamauga, in his beloved Tennessee on September 19, 1863. He was a 26-year old Captain in the Confederate army.
[INSERT OFFICIAL RECORDS OF SAMUEL?S DEATH FROM CIVIL WAR
y	Samuel	Jackson, TN 44th Cons, Inf. Co. I, Captain
Col. Andrew Jackson, Jr. commanded a Confederate artillery battery at Vicksburg during the war.229 On April 17, 1865 at Hermitage, he died of lockjaw, caused by a hunting wound .23?
(I have copies of a couple of reports involving Jr. from War of the Rebellion, if we want to use them.) (to do)
After the war, Sarah was able to have Samuel?s remains returned to the Hermitage, where he is buried near his father and grandfather.
W. R. Adams was a New Orleans supplier recommended by John Claiborne to Jackson in a letter dated December 3, 1856. (quote letter if not done above)
228	Hancock County Deed Book E, pp. 458-460. Seal subsequently sold Sea Song on May 14, 1872; the buyer was Simpronius Russ, who paid $2,000. Russ was the son of Asa Russ who had sold to Jackson when Simpronius was only about 12 years old.. Curiously, a number of entries appear in the early deed books that purport to show that the Claibomes bought Clifton, as well as other properties, for taxes; these entries, including one which is an inventory of Mrs. Claiborne?s assets, apparently did not hold up legally, as it is evident that Seal was declared owner of Clifton, as well as Sea Song and two other properties. Another parcel that Andrew Jr. had bought was the ?Mitchell place,? 1,920 acres purchased on March 19, 1857; it is not known what disposition was made of this piece of land.
29 War of the Rebellion, Vol. 24, pt. 1, p. 570.
230 The Hermitage, Publication of the Ladie?s Hermitage association, 1997, p. 46.


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