City Directories and History: The Yorkville Enquirer reported:
Yorkville Enquirer, May 11, 1864: Brig. Gen. Micah Jenkins killed
The editor wrote that his ink was scare dry from writing the notice of the death of John L. Miller when he received the news of Jenkins’ death. “It is sad to learn that he was killed by his own men mistaking him for the enemy, but the accidents of war are inevitable as the decrees of fate. Another young widow and orphaned children are left without their natural protector, and the country mourns another of her most gallant defender. . . .”
Jenkins was born in Charleston and graduated from the State Military Academy. He won the highest honor in his class and went to Yorkville where, along with Col. Coward, “also of the Army in Virginia,” began the Yorkville Preparatory Military School. This school was highly successful until the war when the leaders entered military service. Jenkins moved through the ranks rapidly and was on the verge of making Major General at twenty-six years of age. He was a disciplinarian and yet popular with the men. He was of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
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