JENKINS, Albert Gallatin, soldier, born in Ca-bell county, Virginia, 10 November, 1830; died in Dublin, Virginia, 7 May, 1864. He was educated at the Virginia military institute, Lexington, Virginia, at Jefferson college, Pennsylvania, where he was graduated in 1848, and at Harvard law school, where he was graduated in 1850. He was admitted to the bar, but never practised, devoting himself instead to agriculture. He was delegate to the National Democratic convention in Cincinnati in 1856, a member of congress from Virginia in 1857-'61, and a delegate from Virginia to the provisional Confederate congress in the latter year. He then entered the Confederate army, and was appointed brigadier-general, 5 August, 1862. He commanded a brigade in A. P. Hill's division, and afterward in Stuart's cavalry corps, did good service at Gettysburg, and served in the Shenandoah valley and western Virginia. He was killed in action at Dublin, Virginia