St. Cloud Democrat. (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, January 09, 1862 :

CONRAD FEGER JACKSON

Jackson, Conrad F., brigadier-general, was born in
Pennsylvania Sept. 11, 1818. He was an employee of the
Philadelphia & Reading railroad from its beginning until 1861,
when he resigned to become colonel of the 9th Penn. reserves.
He commanded the regiment in the protection of the national
capital and at the battle of Dranesville, Va. and served under
Gen. McCall in the Peninsular campaign, being attached to
Seymour's brigade and succeeding to the command of the brigade
when Seymour took charge of the division. In July, 1862, he
was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers
and fought at second Bull Run, South mountain and Antietam.
He fell while leading a charge in command of the attacking
column, at Fredericksburg, Va., and died on the battlefield,
Dec. 13, 1862.

Source: The Union Army, vol. 8

The first after-action report written by then Brigadier-General U.S. Grant, was on the Battle of Belmont, Missouri, fought November 7, 1861. Part of the Confederate force was the Second Tennessee Infantry. The 2nd’s Captain of Company G, J. Welby Armstrong, had employed a “free man of color,” Levin Graham as a fifer and cook. Captain Armstrong would be killed in the battle, but the New Orleans Daily Crescent wrote of Levin in their issue for December 6, 1861, “He refused to stay in camp when the regiment moved, and obtaining a musket and cartridges, went across the river with us. He fought manfully, and it is known he killed four of the Yankees, from one of whom he took a colt revolver. He fought through the whole battle, and not a single man in our whole Army fought better.”