Confederate General Albert Gallitin Jenkins

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Albert Gallatin Jenkins (November 10, 1830 - May 21, 1864)
was a Virginia Attorney, planter, slaveholder, politician and soldier
from what would become West Virginia during the American Civil
war.  he served in the United States Congress and later the First
Confederate Congress.  After Virginia Secession, Jenkins raised a
company of partisan rangers and rose to become a Confederate
brigadier general, commanding a brigade of cavalry. Wounded at
the Battle of Gettysburg and again during the Confederate loss at
the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain (during which he was captured),
Jenkins died days after his arm was amputated by Union surgeons.

His former home is now operated by the U.S. Army corps of
Engineers.

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