J. J. (John Jackson) Kellogg

Born in 1837 and dying in 1916, J. J. Kellogg was also known as John Jackson Kellogg. He is remembered as the author of War Experiences and the Story of the Vicksburg Campaign From Milliken's Bend to July 4, 1863, a work that reflects his close connection to one of the Civil War's most important campaigns.

Available records identify him both by his full name and by the initials J. J. Kellogg, which is how his work is often cataloged. The surviving information we could confirm is limited, but it points to an author who wrote from lived experience and preserved a personal view of wartime service for later readers.

That gives his work much of its appeal today: it offers history not as a distant summary, but as something observed and remembered by someone who was there.