The first Confederate flag indicates this small sewing kit
or "housewife" was stitched early in the Civil War.
The roll-up is in the collection of the Fort Morgan Historical Site
at the mouth of Mobile Bay in Alabama. It was made
for Lieutenant Colonel James T. Gee, of Selma, Alabama.
At the top Dr. Gee's initials.
Gee was distantly related to the Gee family for whom Gee's Bend, Alabama was named. He and his mother Susan Binford Gee ran the St. James Hotel in Selma before the war. I couldn't find
any mention of wife or children so Susan B. Gee may have made the gift.
It seems to have pockets for thread and some of the sections may have been pincushions or needlecases.
The white silk foundation, quilted in diagonals by machine may have been a coat lining re-purposed as a sewing kit. We couldn't see the other side in the display case. With this patriotic roll-up Gee
would be able to patch any holes and replace lost buttons---very small problems in a very big war.