William Hicks "Red" Jackson (October 1, 1835 – March 30, 1903) was a career United States Army officer who graduated from West Point.

He shared some decisions with his brother Howell Edmunds Jackson, who as a widower had married Selene's sister Mary Harding in 1873; they also inherited an interest in Belle Meade.

His older brother Howell Edmunds Jackson became an attorney, politician and later served as a US senator and, late in life, as a United States Supreme Court Justice.

He attended West Tennessee College (now Union University) before accepting an appointment to the United States Military Academy.

His troopers repeatedly skirmished in August with the Union cavalry of H. Judson Kilpatrick, which was attempting to destroy railroads south of the city.

[1] With his father-in-law William Giles Harding, the senior Jackson learned to co-manage the latter's Belle Meade Stud near Nashville.

His older brother, jurist Howell Edmunds Jackson, married Selene's younger sister Mary Harding after the death of his first wife in 1873, likely in the widespread cholera epidemic.

In addition his horse breeding business suffered because of reform efforts by the evangelical movement in Tennessee, which resulted in closing down racetracks and ending associated gambling.

[5] Jackson was fond of the sport of live bird wing shooting, and he founded the Belle Meade Gun Club on his farm in 1897.

In 1906, after the plantation was sold, Jackson's remains and those of other members of the Harding-Jackson family were reinterred in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee.