Civil War Album Receiving High Praise for Historical Authenticity and Rich Characters

Aug. 10, 2011 - PRLog -- Conspirators, Confederates, and blockade runners are all included in Emily Hill’s debut novel, JENKINS: Confederate Blockade Runner.  Set in Florida’s pre-Civil War communities, Jenkins’ features many interesting and entertaining characters from the Civil War era who settled in Florida between 1842 and 1892.  Ms. Hill’s deft storytelling leads the reader into secret meetings, shellings, and stories of plantations burned out by marauding Union troops.  A withering tale of starvation, and survival brings the novel to its exciting climax.

The heirloom inspiration of the novel, a thirty-six plate leather bound photograph album, dated 1864, tying Ms. Hill’s Baltimore family to that of Colonel Jenkins’ was left to her by her great aunt, a Ziegfeld Follies dancer, who retired to Florida in the 1960’s.

Ms. Hill spent fifteen years researching the familial connections between the novels protagonist, C.T. Jenkins, and other Baltimore family members including that of James Ryder Randall, author of Maryland’s state song, “Maryland, My Maryland” who visited Homosassa, Florida in 1859.  

Jenkins: Confederate Blockade Runner explores the daunting struggles and tangled manipulations that catapulted the communities of Bay Port and Brooksville into the middle of the Union’s Gulf Coast campaign.  As the drum beat for war builds in the foreground of Ms. Hill’s novel, the personal story of main character C.T. Jenkins plays out as a man seeking redemption for youthful misjudgments that affected his Baltimore family.  The novel details Jenkins’ relationship with his Homosassa neighbors and exposes the behind-the-scene story of his marriage into the Colburn family of Vermont.

Jenkins:  Confederate Blockade Runner is available on Amazon.com.  Visit http://www.amazon.com/Jenkins-Confederate-Blockade-Runner... for details.

JENKINS: Confederate Blockade Runner is also available for order nationwide at all Barnes & Noble outlets.   ISBN:  978-0-9829713-5-2.

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A.V. Harrison Publishing features ground-breaking topics from emerging authors. Its books are distributed by Ingram, available on Amazon.com and B&N Nook. Owner, Emily Hill, invites submissions and can be contacted at info@avharrison-publishing.com.