{"product_id":"9780982971307","title":"Jenkins: Confederate Blockade Runner","description":"2015 Appomattox Edition. \u003cp\u003eStudy Guide included for academic use: American History, Women's Studies \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn American Saga based on a True Story documented in the Congressional Record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJENKINS Confederate Blockade Runner is written for every family whose ancestors suffered through the Civil War. Based on personal letters, a Civil War era photograph album, and official documents from the Congressional Record this amazing story of survival tells of a Union-Confederate family whose loyalties were divided, and betrayals suffered as the drumbeat of war advanced. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the stately mansions of 1830s Baltimore to the outposts of Florida during its ante-bellum period, and on through a war that brings a May-December marriage of two dynasty families to its knees - no aspect of ragged truth is omitted. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJENKINS Confederate Blockade Runner is as much a saga of one man's tragic odyssey from Baltimore gentleman to Florida settler, to prisoner of war, as it is a shocking revelation of what the women of the Civil War endured as a nation teetered on the brink of annihilation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLosses, loves, and loyalties play on the reader's imagination as Ms. Hill sets the domestic scene of what the Baltimore Sun described as \"A Well-Known Family of Baltimore's Cathedral District\". \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\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\u003eIncluded in this novel are portrayals of Colonel Jenkins' extended 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, including Albert V. Colburn, a Union Officer and West Point graduate of 1857 - and his iron-willed mother, Lucy Davey Colburn. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorically true to the facts, emotionally true to the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGenealogists will appreciate the detail and accuracy of the novel's sweep. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA dramatic, gender-inclusive saga of family history and Civil War tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"A. V. Harrison of Baltimore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47010033828080,"sku":"9780982971307","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780982971307_p0.jpg?v=1763889684","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780982971307","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}