JENKINS, MICAH
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1835-1864. John Micah Jenkins was born on Edisto Island, S.C. Graduated from The Citadel in 1854 at the head of his class. He was a co-founder (with Asbury Coward) of the King's Mountain Military School at Yorkville, S.C. He was promoted to Brigadier General, C.S.A. on July 22, 1862. He was killed on May 6, 1864 by the fire of his own men at the Battle of the Wilderness, near where Stonewall Jackson had been shot. The Citadel's military science building is named after him. (Sources: Ezra Warner's Generals in Gray, p. 155. REF E467 .W3; Dictionary of American Biography, vol. 10, p. 49. REF E176 .D56; Michael D. Blackwell, Remember Now Thy Creator in the Days of Thy Youth, pp.162-176. U430 .B63 2003; Franklin Sanders, "John Micah Jenkins, Civil War General and Heroic Character," News and Courier, May 29, 1964, Special Citadel Supplement, p. 2-E) (HN, DH & EC)
