Albert G . Jenkins 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 became West Virginia , he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Cloyd ' s Mountain near Dublin , Virginia . Early life and career . Jenkins was born to wealthy plantation owner Capt . William Jenkins and his wife Jeanette Grigsby McNutt in Cabell County , Virginia , now West Virginia . At the age of 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 that same year and established a practice 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 Congress es . Civil War . With the outbreak of the Civil War and Virginia ' s subsequent secession , Jenkins declined running for a third term and resigned from Congress in early 1861 . He returned home and raised a company of mounted partisan rangers . By June , his company had enrolled in the Confederate army as a part of the 8th Virginia Cavalry , with Jenkins as its colonel . By the end of the year , his men had become such a nuisance to Federal interests in western Virginia that Governor Francis H . Pierpont appealed to President Abraham Lincoln to send in a strong leader to stamp out rebellion in the region . Early in 1862 , Jenkins left the field to become a delegate to the First Confederate Congress . He was appointed brigadier general August 1 , 1862 , and returned to active duty . Throughout the fall , his men performed well , continuing to harass Union troops and supply lines , including the vital Baltimore & Ohio Railroad . In September , Jenkins ' s cavalry raided northern Kentucky and West Virginia , and briefly entered extreme southern Ohio near Buffington Island , becoming one of the first organized Confederate units to enter a Northern state . In December , Robert E . Lee requested that Jenkins and his men transfer to the Shenandoah Valley . After spending the winter foraging for supplies , he led his men on a raid in March 1863 through western Virginia . During the Gettysburg Campaign , Jenkins ' brigade formed the cavalry screen for Richard S . Ewell ' s Second Corps . Jenkins led his men through the Cumberland Valley into Pennsylvania and seized Chambersburg , burning down nearby railroad structures and bridges . He accompanied Ewell ' s column to Carlisle , briefly skirmishing with Union militia at the Battle of Sporting Hill near Harrisburg . During the subsequent Battle of Gettysburg , Jenkins was wounded on July 2 and missed the rest of the fighting . He did not recover sufficiently to rejoin his command until autumn . He spent the early part of 1864 raising and organizing a large cavalry force for service in western Virginia . By May , Jenkins had been appointed Commander of the Department of Western Virginia with his headquarters at Dublin . Hearing that Union Brig . Gen . George Crook had been dispatched from the Kanawha Valley with a large force , Jenkins took the field to contest the Federal arrival . On May 9 , 1864 , he was severely wounded and captured during the Battle of Cloyd ' s Mountain . A Union surgeon amputated Jenkins ' arm , but he never recovered , dying twelve days later . He was initially buried in New Dublin Presbyterian Cemetery . After the war , his remains were reinterred at his home in Greenbottom , near Huntington , West Virginia . He was later reinterred in the Confederate plot in Spring Hill Cemetery in Huntington . Memorialization . Jenkins ' s home , " Green Bottom " , has been restored and is now a museum run by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History . In 1937 , Marshall University constructed Jenkins Hall , naming it in honor of the distinguished Confederate cavalry officer . In 2005 , a monument to General Jenkins was erected in Mechanicsburg , Pennsylvania , commemorating his service during the Gettysburg Campaign .