Civil War Union Officer Photographs Discovered in Confederate's 1864 Heirloom Album

Aug. 10, 2011 - PRLog -- A Civil War heirloom has become the inspiration of this season’s most highly praised Civil War novel, JENKINS: Confederate Blockade Runner.  A thirty-six plate leather bound photograph album, dated 1864, has allowed author, Emily Hill to tie her ancestral uncle, Confederate C.T. Jenkins, to Union officer, Albert V. Colburn and General George McClellan.   Ms. Hill’s Civil War album 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.  

Set in Florida’s pre-Civil War communities, Baltimore, and Vermont, JENKINS: Confederate Blockade Runner features many interesting and entertaining characters from the Civil War.  Ms. Hill’s deft storytelling leads the reader into secret meetings, shellings, and stories of plantations burned out by marauding Union troops.  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.

Colonel Jenkins’ remains lie in the Lake Lindsay Cemetery, outside Brooksville, Florida, next to those of Lucy Davey Colburn, his long-time friend and mother-in-law.  Mrs. Colburn was the mother of Union Army AAG, Albert V. Colburn.   AAG Colburn lies buried, with honors, at the Cedar Grove Cemetery in Fair Haven, Vermont.

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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.