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3002 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSpanics of Georgia. In 1846 he moved to Floyd County and was living upona fine estate near Rome at the outbreak of the Civil war. At that time hewas captain of the Cherokee Artillery and was commissioned by the Confederacy a regular colonel in that branch of the service. He was active inthe field and was promoted to be brigadier-general in January, 1863. AtChiekamauga, the engagement before Atlanta and at the battle of Nashvillehe was especially prominent, ajt the last named being a strong assistant insaving the Army of the Tennessee. His troops afterward joined Johnston inthe Carolines, and surrendered, with the rest of the army, at Bentonville,North Carolina, in April, 1865. After the war General Stovall made hishome in Augusta and engaged in business and manufacturing for many years.He died there in 1895.JAMES JACKSON, member of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 1875 untilhis death, January 13, 1887, and chief justice for the last eight years of histerm, was born in Jefferson County October 18, 1819. When he was aboutten years of age his parents removed to Athens, and after a few years'training in private schools he entered the freshman class of the university.Soon after his graduation, in 1837, he commenced the study of law, andcommenced practice at Monroe, Walton County. He served two terms inthe General Assembly, commencing 1845 and 1847, respectively; in 1849 hewas elected to the bench of the Western Circuit and in 1857 resigned to takehis seat in Congress. He was re-elected to that body in 1859, but resignedwhen Georgia passed the ordinance of secession. During the war he servedas a military judge of the Confederacy, with the rank of colonel, his dutieskeeping him usually at Richmond.At the conclusion of the war Judge Jackson returned to Georgia andpracticed until 1875, when he was appointed associate justice of the StateSupreme Court, serving thus until 1880, when the governor appointed himchief justice. The General Assembly of that year elected him to that positionfor the full term of six years. At its conclusion, and only a few weeks beforehis death, he was re-elected for a second term of six years.JOHN BULOW CAMPBELL. The City of Atlanta has many native sons whoby force of character have risen to a high place in the business or professional world and have done honor to the place of their birth. One of the mostenterprising and successful of these is John Bulow Campbell, president ofthe R. 0. Campbell Coal Company, also of the N. P. Pratt Laboratory, andofficially connected with many other important business concerns.He was born in Atlanta December 15, 1870, and has spent practically allhis life in that city. His father John B. Campbell, Sr., a native of Walterboro,South Carolina, was brought to Georgia in early boyhood by his parentsDavid Crowell and Caroline (Geddes) Campbell, located at Milledgeville,then the capital of Georgia. .John B. Campbell, Sr., served as secretary ofthe executive department under Hon. Joseph E. Brown during the Civil war.In 1865 he removed to Atlanta and was secretary of the executive departmentof Georgia under Governors James Smith and Charles J. Jenkins. Here hisdeath occurred in 1884 when he was fifty-six years old.He married Margaret Virginia Orme, a native of Milledgeville, Georgia,and a daughter of Richard McAllister and Jean Moncure (Paine) Orme. Mrs.John B. Campbell is also deceased. She was the mother of three sons, RichardOrme, David Crowell and John Bulow. Richard Orme Campbell was thefounder of the R. 0. Campbell Coal Company and its president up to thetime of his death at the age of fifty-two on August 17, 1912. He left a wifeand children, nojv residing in Atlanta. David Crowell Campbell, the secondson, is a resident of Knoxville, Tennessee.John Bulow Campbell acquired his early education in the Atlanta public