Alfred E. Jackson

Alfred Eugene Jackson (January 11, 1807 – October 30, 1889) was a Confederate States Army brigadier general during the American Civil War. Before the war, he was a farmer, produce wholesaler, miller, manufacturer and transporter of goods by wagon and boat. After the war, he was a tenant farmer in Virginia until he regained some of his property in Tennessee. Jackson owned 20 slaves.

Early life Jackson was born on January 11, 1807, in Davidson County, Tennessee. He attended Washington College (presumably Washington College Academy, a predecessor of Tusculum College, both of which were founded by Samuel Doak) and Greeneville College, now Tusculum College. Jackson and his Confederate troops spent most of the war pursuing guerrillas and pitching small battles in East Tennessee, eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia and western North Carolina.

Jackson served as a paymaster during the Confederate military occupation of Knoxville, Tennessee Jackson's original appointment as a brigadier general on October 29, 1862, was canceled.

In May 1863, Jackson's brigade briefly was attached to the Army of Tennessee.

Nickname controversy There is a controversy about the nickname "Mudwall." Although fellow Confederate general William Lowther Jackson from West Virginia (no family relation) has been known as such for a long time, historian Garry W. Gallagher found that the nickname was actually given to Alfred Jackson. It seems the two were mixed up in the Southern Historical Society Papers in 1906 and the error was repeated by authors who consulted those papers. At times the name has been assigned in error to a third (likewise unrelated) Confederate general, Brigadier John K. Jackson.