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Daughters of the Confederacy Memoir
United Daughters of the Confederacy membersin Jackson, Tennessee, 1909The ladies associations North and South built monuments and assisted veterans and their families. Another task was preserving...
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Threads of Memory 7: Oberlin Star for the Oberlin Rescuers
Block # 7: Oberlin Star for the Oberlin Rescuers by Jean StancliftTwenty of the Oberlin Rescuers (also called the Oberlin/Wellington Rescuers.)Oberlin College has extensive information about the topic...
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A 20th-Century GAR Quilt
"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...
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Soldiers' Quilt from Upstate New York, 1865
Quilt dated February 5, 1865, made by Sophronia Clark and friends, from Yates Center, Orleans County, New York. Collection of Janet Garrod Chinault.This quilt is on exhibit in Home Front &...
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Civil War Union Veteran's Fundraiser Quilt
Fundraiser, 1912-1915Made in Harrisburg, Illinois, Saline CountyCollection of the Illinois State MuseumThe exhibit Civil War Quilters: Loyal Hearts of Illinois, now at the Illinois State Museum...
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Saco, Maine Quilt 1862
In my list of quilt dated during the Civil War I missed this quilt dated 1862 in the collection of Pam Weeks. The red, white and blue quilt was made in Saco, Maine, perhaps to be sent to a soldier's...
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Threads of Memory 8: Jacksonville Star for Emily Logan
Block # 8 in Threads of Memory: JacksonvilleStar for Emily Logan by Jean StancliftIn 1838 a girl living in Jacksonville, Illinois gradually realized she'd been duped. Although she lived in a free...
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Accurate Quilting Frames for Civil War Re-enactors
A vignette from American Home Scenes in Harper's Weekly April 13, 1861A reader wrote that she was interested in quilting on a frame at Civil War re-enactments. What kind of quilt frame would be...
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Period Quilting Frames Part 2
Last week I showed pictures of traditional quilt frames and how they were propped up parallel to the ground. The four boards that support the quilt were not permanently joined together.The simplest way...
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Lincoln Crazy Quilt
Dealer Julie Silber had an exceptional crazy quilt forsale last week at the American Quilt Study Group meetingin Milwaukee. It's dated 1882-1884.The seamstress included several political ribbonssuch as...
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Threads of Memory 9: Lancaster Star for Deborah Simmons Coates
Lancaster Star by Becky BrownSilk quilt by Deborah Simmons Coates, Collection of The Heritage Center of Lancaster County.The triangle design along the Lancaster Star's edges recalls Deborah Coates's...
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"Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the Civil War" at the Shelburne
Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the Civil War is currently on view at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont through January 1, 2015. The exhibit "highlights a broad range of...
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Emma Safford's Inked Civil War Quilt
"Commenced March 22' 1862Emma S. Safford"The great-great grandniece of Emma Safford inherited this quilt (it looks like an unquilted, bound coverlet) and has shown it in the past decade or so.Each of...
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Abolitionist Image on the Wistar Quilt
"Remember the Slave. Rebecca S. Hart"This month's block Lancaster Star recalls a Quaker quilt with a printed image of the kneeling slave. (Scroll down to see the September 27th post.)Another version,...
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Threads of Memory 10: Britain's Star for Charlotte Henson
# 10: Britain's Star by Jean StancliftTwelve years after the U.S. Civil War was over, an English woman described in her diary a "most interesting book" about an African-American man who'd escaped...
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Abolitionist Quilt at the Crystal Palace Exhibition
Above is a little-seen quilt with a Civil War connection.The photo is from Sandi Fox's 1985 book Small Endearments:Nineteenth-Century Quilts for Children, in which it is dated as "circa 1860."Here's a...
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M.T. Hollander and the Abolitionist Baby Quilt
Last week I posted about the quilt displayed at theback of Mrs. Hollander's display box at the 1853-4Crystal Palace exhibit in New York.Merikay Waldvogel curated a 1994 show of quilts fromthe Historic...
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Connecticut & New York Sampler: 1866-67
Union shield in the center of a post-Civil-War samplerSummer Spread Sampler Albumwith blocks dated 1866, 1867 and 1875.Recently sold by Old Hope AntiquesTheir copy:"This Friendship Quilt has 42 signed...
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Inside Willoughby Babcock's Tent
General Willoughby Babcock (1832-1864) standingin front of a tent during the Civil War.New Yorker Willoughby Babcock joined the Union Army soon after the beginning of the war. By winter of 1861 he was...
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Sherman's Neckties-150th Anniversary Quilt
Sherman's NecktiesHere's a sketch for a 98" square quilt using a varietyof blue prints with gray-blue neutrals. I drew itin EQ7 in my Union Blues repro collection for Moda,which will be in shops about...
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