Born in Greenbottom, Virginia, on November 10, 1830, Albert Gallatin Jenkins graduated from Jefferson College and studied law at Harvard University. He served as a U.S. Congressman from 1857 to 1861, resigned to serve the Confederacy, and then served in the first Congress of the Confederate states before receiving his commission as a brigadier general. Jenkins and his command occupied this property from June 28 to June 30, 1863, while he probed the defenses of Harrisburg, but Gen. Lee recalled him to join the main army at Gettysburg. He was severely wounded by artillery fire during the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, but recovered. In 1864, the Confederacy appointed him commander of the Department of West Virginia. He was again seriously wounded and captured at the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain and died of those wounds on May 24, 1864. His cavalry command included the 14th Virginia Cavalry Regiment under Maj. Benjamin Eakie, the 16th Virginia Cavalry Regiment under Col. Milton Ferguson, the 17th Virginia Cavalry Regiment under Col. William French, the 34th Virginia Cavalry Regiment under Lt. Col. Vincent Witcher, the 36th Virginia Cavalry Regiment under Col. Charles Thorburn, the Charlottsville Virginia Battery under Capt. Thomas Jackson, and the 2nd Baltimore Light Artillery under Capt. William Griffin.
