{"product_id":"2940011198984","title":"The Jenkins of Baltimore","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Lots of tension!” “Well done and believable!” “good attention to the craft of writing” says Pacific Northwest Writers Association about JENKINS: Confederate Blockade Runner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorians in Florida call this season’s Civil War saga simply, “Wonderful!”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor every American family whose ancestors suffered the Civil War, JENKINS: Confederate Blockade Runner was written. Based on personal letters, Civil War era photograph albums, and historical documents this saga tells of a Union~Confederate family whose loyalties were torn as the drumbeats of war advanced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe men of the Jenkins family, their business ambitions and political perspectives; the women of the Colburn family, their fashions, their lifestyle, are all included in this well-researched debut novel. Losses, loves, and loyalties play on the reader’s imagination as Ms. Hill sets the domestic scene of what the 1903 Baltimore Sun described as “Baltimore’s Well-Known Family”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning in 1820s Baltimore, Maryland JENKINS: Confederate Blockade Runner takes the reader on a ride with Newburne’s Company of Mounted Rifles, through the settler days of Fair Haven, Vermont and along the beautiful Gulf Coast, ravaged by the Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by the photograph album of family pictures that kept Colonel C.T. Jenkins, of the Florida Fourth, CSA, company during his incarceration as a convicted blockade runner, author Emily Hill, “A Civil War Lady” and current caretaker of that album weaves a drama that is receiving high praise from writer’s conferences, Florida historians, and historical fiction enthusiasts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorically true to the facts, emotionally true to the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluded in this novel are portrayals of Colonel Jenkins’ family members including James Ryder Randall, author of ‘Maryland, My Maryland’, Admiral Semmes – a cousin to Colonel Jenkins; and members of Vermont’s Colburn family, Albert V. Colburn, a Union Officer and West Point graduate of 1857 and his iron-willed mother, Lucy Davey Colburn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGenealogists will appreciate the detail and accuracy of the novel’s sweep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA dramatic, gender-inclusive saga of family history and Civil War tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emily Hill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152133996784,"sku":"2940011198984","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011198984_p0.jpg?v=1763547923","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011198984","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}