About Oscar Jackson, the subject of Left for Dead

September 2, 1840 - Born in village of Newport in what was then Beaver and is now Lawrence County, Pennsylvania.

1850 - Family moves to a farm near New Castle, Pennsylvania.

1858 - Finishes schooling and becomes a school teacher

1859 - Leaves for Logan, Ohio for a "better position."

1861 - Returns to Pennsylvania to study to become a lawyer.

August, 1861 - Answers President Abraham Lincoln's call; abandon's studies; raises a company from among his former students and associates in and around Hocking County, Ohio, which became Company H, 63rd Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which became part of a larger unit known as the "Ohio Brigade." This brigade was assigned to an army commanded by Major General John Pope.

March 3, 1862 - First engagement with Confederate troops; battle of New Madrid and Island No. 10.

September, 1862 - Battle of Iuka, Mississippi.

October 3, 1862 - Battle of Corinth, Mississippi, during which Jackson is shot and "Left for Dead."

February 3, 1863 - Recovered, rejoins unit at Corinth, Mississippi.

April, May 1863 - Uneventful excursion into Northern Alabama.

May 24, 1863 - Put in charge of steamboat Luminary, loaded with 5,000 cases of ammo needed by General Ulysses S. Grant's army at the siege at Vicksburg.

May 25, 1863 - Luminary departs Memphis, Tennessee.

May 27, 1863 - Complete trip down Mississippi River to General Grant's supply depot at Chickasaw Bayou on the Yazoo River.

Last Months of 1863 - Duty in Memphis and Prospect, Tennessee.

Early 1864 - Re-enlistment furlough; company reassembles in Cincinnati, Ohio, takes train back to camp at Elk River near Prospect, Tennessee.

February, 1864 - Moves to Decatur, Alabama, staging area for the Atlanta Campaign.

May 1, 1864 - Part of three Federal armies under command of Major General William T. Sherman which move out of camps in Alabama and Tennessee toward Atlanta, Georgia.

May 13 and 14, 1864 - Battle at Resaca, Georgia.

May 27, 1864 - Fighting at Dallas, Georgia.

June, 1864 - Dalton Georgia, Marietta, Georgia.

June 27, 1864 - Attack on Kennesaw Mountain.

August, 1864 - Siege of Atlanta.

September 2, 1864 - Atlanta occupied.

November 15, 1864 - Marches out of Atlanta on Sherman's March across Georgia. Witnesses Atlanta on fire. Goes through Hillsboro, Monticell, Milledgeville and Millen, tearing up the George Central Railroad along the way.

December 20, 1864 - Savannah, Georgia occupied.

January 16, 1865 - Part of Sherman's "grand scheme," a march through both South Carolina and North Carolina.

February 3, 1865 - Fighting at Battle of Rivers Bridge (Salkahatchie River).

February 16 and 17, 1865 - Columbia, South Carolina.

February 22, 1865 - Fayetteville, North Carolina.

February 24, 1865 - Goldsboro, North Carolina.

February 26, 1865 - Promoted to the rank of Major.

April 10, 1865 - Raleigh, North Carolina, General Joseph E. Johnston surrendering. This was Jackson's last military engagement with Confederates.

May 24, 1865 - Marches in the Grand Review down Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington D.C. with Sherman's army.

July 9, 1865 - Louisville, Kentucky; last day of military service of the 63rd Ohio.

July 11, 1865 - Travels to Camp Dennison via Cincinnati, Ohio, to await final payment and receive discharge.

July 19, 1865 - Discharged from the army.

1865 and 1866 - In Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, studies law.

1866 - Admitted to the bar. Opens law office in New Castle, Pennsylvania.

1868 - Elected District Attorney for Lawrence County.

1884-1888 - Serves in U. S. House of Representatives (24th Pennsylvania District).

1915 - Participates in 50th Anniversary of the Grand Review (Washington, D.C.). Reported that he "walked the entire route."

February 16, 1920 - Dies of heart attack.