Albert Gallatin Jenkins

Not to be confused with Albert Gallatin Brown, another Confederate historical figure also appearing in The Guns of the South. 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 would become West Virginia, he was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg and put out of action for a few months. He was wounded again, severely this time, and captured during the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain near Dublin, Virginia on May 9, 1864. A Union surgeon amputated Jenkins' arm, but he never recovered, dying 12 days later.

Albert Gallatin Jenkins in The Guns of the South
Albert Gallatin Jenkins' cavalry was among the first Confederate Army units to be outfitted with AK-47 repeating rifles. On May 9, 1864, just south of Cloyd's Mountain, Virginia, Jenkins' men were attacked by a much larger Federal force commanded by General George Crook and Colonel Rutherford Hayes. The new weapons gave Jenkins' cavalry an advantage beyond their numbers, and they won the day, killing Crook and Hayes in the process.