The Struck Eagle: A Biography of Brigadier General Micah Jenkins, and a History of the Fifth South Carolina Volunteers and the Palmetto Sharpshooters
The Struck Eagle: Brigadier General Micah Jenkins is the story of Micah Jenkins and his spectacular exploits in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. In this fascinating and detailed civil war biography we find that Jenkins and his men played an important role from First Manassas to the Wilderness. After his brilliant performance at the Battle of Seven Pines, he was promoted to Brigadier General on Lee's recommendation. Jenkins quickly became the protege of his controversial corps commander, James Longstreet, a relationship that may have damaged Jenkins' chances for further promotion. Based largely on the words of eyewitnesses (as taken from unpublished memoirs, journals, newspaper accounts and official war records) this story is told in the context of the military movements of Lee's army and Longstreet's First Corps. The Struck Eagle is Civil War history at it's best and most insightful!  --Midwest Book Review