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Border Rangers Chapter 2580, Barboursville, WV

click for larger view - Mr. Jack Dickinson Confederate Bibliographer is a renown Civil War researcher and author.  He provided the image of our flag from the Rosanna A. Blake Library of Confederate History at Marshall University in Huntington WV - The original Border Rangers Company was Company E of the 8th Calvary - This is a battle honors flag given to them after the Battle of White Sulphur Springs in 1863 - Battle of Dry Creek - This means they had other flags before this one

The Jenkins Plantation

General Albert Gallatin Jenkins - Courtesy of the Marshall University Rosanna Blake Library of Confederate History    Gen Jenkins' grave - Courtesy of the Marshall University Rosanna Blake Library of Confederate History

Confederate Brigadier General, Albert Gallatin Jenkins and a current photo of his grave.

The US Army Corpse of Engineers, Huntington District, proudly presents a 2006 documentary narrated by Ann Magnuson, entitled "The Ghost of Greenbottom" the history of the Jenkins Plantation and the current archeological project that is underway at the site:  http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/video/greenbottom.html

Directed by Daniel Boyd & Produced by Daniel Boyd and Mike Riley, Paradise Film Institute

Click any photo for a larger view. The Jenkins Plantation still stands and is located at 8814 Ohio River Road, Lesage WV 25537.  It was built in 1835 by Captain William Jenkins. Access the official Jenkins Plantation Museum online

   The Jenkins home as it looks today after restoration - Courtesy of the Marshall University Rosanna Blake Library of Confederate History    The Jenkins home before restoration - Courtesy of the Marshall University Rosanna Blake Library of Confederate History    1906 in disrepair - open to the elements - Courtesy of the Marshall University Rosanna Blake Library of Confederate History     1919 in disrepair - Courtesy of the Marshall University Rosanna Blake Library of Confederate History

L-R:  The Jenkins home before restoration. A photo taken in 1906 of the home and plantation.  The Jenkins home in a state of disrepair before restoration. (Click on any image to view.)  All images are courtesy of Mr. Jack Dickinson, Confederate Bibliographer at the Marshall University Rosanna Blake Library of Confederate History

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