There were two soldiers named Edward Jackson in Company G of the 19th Regiment, one a Private, and one a Sergeant. This is Sergeant Edward Jackson.

17-year-old Sergeant Edward Jackson was one of 40 slaves who lived on the large tobacco plantation of Alfred W. Gardiner near Bryantown, Maryland. He enlisted on January 4, 1864 and mustered into the 19th Regiment at Camp Stanton on January 10, 1864. Gardiner applied for $300 compensation for Jackson's enlistment, but was turned down for being considered disloyal.

Jackson was captured by Confederate soldiers during the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864 outside Petersburg, Virginia. He was sold back into slavery in North Carolina, but escaped a year later and made his way back to Virginia where he rejoined the 19th Regiment at City Point on May 22, 1865.

Jackson was promoted to Corporal and then to Sergeant while the 19th Regiment was stationed in Texas. He mustered out with the rest of the Regiment on January 15, 1867 at Brownsville, Texas.

After the war, Jackson married Eliza A. Chapman at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Piscataway, Maryland, on January 15, 1872, presided by Father McGuire. Before the war, Eliza had been a slave of Oliver N. Bryan, Bryan's Point, Charles County, Maryland. Her parents were George and Beckie Chapman, and her brothers were George, Jr. and Henry. Edward and Eliza Jackson had no children. He was survived by his wife when he died on May 31, 1918 in Piscataway, Maryland.