Jenkins, Albert Gallatin

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    Full name
    Albert Gallatin Jenkins
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    Education
    Other
    Other Education
    Jefferson College, PA; Harvard Law School
    Occupation
    Politician
    Military
    Attorney or Judge
    Farmer or Planter
    Government
    US House of Representatives
    Military
    Confederate Army

    Albert Gallatin Jenkins (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    JENKINS, Albert Gallatin, a Representative from Virginia; born in Cabell County, Va., November 10, 1830; was graduated from Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pa., in 1848 and from Harvard Law School in 1850; was admitted to the bar in 1850, but engaged in agricultural pursuits; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1856; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861); delegate to the Confederate Provisional Congress in 1861; enlisted in the Confederate Army; appointed brigadier general August 1, 1862; wounded in the Battle of Cloyds Mountain, near Dublin, Va., May 9, 1864, and died May 21, 1864; interment in New Dublin Presbyterian Cemetery; reinterred after the close of the war at his home in Green Valley, near Huntington, W.Va.; again reinterred in the Confederate plot in Spring Hill Cemetery, Huntington, W.Va.
    “Jenkins, Albert Gallatin,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000081.
    How to Cite This Page: "Jenkins, Albert Gallatin," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/5976.