Albert Gallatin Jenkins
| Albert Gallatin Jenkins | |
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Representative Albert G. Jenkins
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 11th district |
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In office March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1861 |
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| Preceded by | John S. Carlile |
| Succeeded by | John S. Carlile |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
November 10, 1830 Cabell County, Virginia |
| Died | May 21, 1864 (aged 33) Battle of Cloyd's Mountain |
| Political party | Democratic |
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| Allegiance |
 Confederate States of America
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| Service/branch |
 Confederate States Army
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| Rank |
 Brigadier general
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Albert Gallatin Jenkins (November 10, 1830 – May 21, 1864) was an attorney, planter, representative to the United States Congress and First Confederate Congress, and a Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War. The commander of a brigade of cavalry from what would become West Virginia, he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain near Dublin, Virginia.
Jenkins was born to wealthy planter Capt. William Jenkins and his wife Jeanette Grigsby McNutt in Cabell County, Virginia, now West Virginia. At age fifteen, he attended Marshall Academy. He graduated from Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1848 and from Harvard Law School in 1850. Jenkins was admitted to the bar the same year and practiced in Charleston, before inheriting a portion of his father's sprawling plantation in 1859. He was named a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Cincinnati in 1856, and was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth United States Congresses.
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