"Wilson Colwell Post No 137.
G.A.R."
The Quilt Index shows a detail of a quilt "found in collections" at the La Crosse County Historical Society. "Found in collections" is museum-speak meaning something like, "No one still here remembers where it came from."
The signature quilt had something to do with the local Wilson Colwell Relief Corps No. 2, associated with the Union veterans' group, the G.A.R. Information about the group's 50th anniversary in 1933 accompanied the quilt. It's inscribed 1883 and 1927 and contains an impressive list of embroidered names.
Check the Index records to see if anyone you know from LaCrosse County, Wisconsin signed the quilt.
See the record here:
UPDATE: Kathy A says this link works:
http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=4-DB-10
and this one doesn't:
UPDATE: Kathy A says this link works:
http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=4-DB-10
and this one doesn't:
The group dedicated this monument to the Union
soldiers of La Crosse in 1913.
They probably met in the G.A.R. room in the basement of
the courthouse, photographed here in 1932.
Their post was named after a local soldier who died during the War.
Wilson Colwell. (1827-1862)
in a Matthew Brady photo taken in
Washington City.