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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
's Bridge, where Major Jenkins was in command of six companies, only two of which he put in action; the lively fight at Rivers' Bridge, and the engagement at Florence. He finally disbanded his command at Summerville, and went to Columbia, where he remained for a year. Since then he has been engaged in planting on Edisto island until within a few years last passed. He again served in the legislature between 1860 and 1870. In 1850 Major Jenkins was married to Marcelline R., daughter of William Murray, and they have two children living, Micah and Marcelline. Their oldest son, G. Washington S. Jenkins, born in 1855, died in 1897, received a medal of honor from the Norwegian government for saving the lives of eight sailors from the Norwegian bark Riga off Beaufort bar, April 11, 1893; also a gold medal of honor of the first class from the United States government. In the recent war with Spain, Micah Jenkins, the surviving son, volunteered in the United States navy, and was second in c