After the Revolutionary War, some members of the famous, mostly doctors, Jackson family moved to Madison, WI, where they helped establish city institutions including Methodist Hospital and the Jackson Clinics, now Meriter Hospital and two of them married into the Hobbins family, which like them included doctors and surgeons, bank founders, and well known business leaders.
Madison's Dr. William Joseph Hobbins served in the infamous Wisconsin Eagle Regiment as Maj Doctor Surgeon, with Step Son later Doctor Surgeon James A. Jackson (Dr. Will was also his step son Dr. Jim Jacksons's Medical Studies Preceptor at WI and also at NYU's Bellevue Medical School) as Regiment Hospital Steward.
Dr.. Will's brother in law was GAR Federal Paymaster Colonel James Mears at the appt of Governor Randall and President Lincoln.
70 000 of Wisconsin's 90 000 Civil War fighting forces trained and were medically cleared for service through Camp Randall in Madison, WI.
Towards the end of the War of the Rebellion in April and May 1864, a large CSA force surrendered to GAR troopers at Island 10 on the Mississippi River.
Dr. Jos Wm Hobbins was then tasked with treating the arriving 1400 Confederate soldiers, about 200 of whom were seriously ill from pneumonia, 65 of whom passed away and are buried at Forest Hill Natl Cemetery in Madison.