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Fanny Fawcett Hopkins's Civil War #1
Fawcett Family QuiltWhen the Civil War began Frances Alexes Fawcett Smith Hopkins was about 30 years old and newly married to her second husband Dr. Benjamin Franklin Hopkins. Frances brought a...
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Ladies' Aid Album Finishes
 Jeanie Rudich has her Ladies' Aid Album sampler quilted & bound.Last year's Block of the Month was based on New York sampler style---lots of animal blocks and hearts in the corners to connect the...
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Fanny Fawcett Hopkins's Quilt
 Last week we got carried away with the well-documented livesof the Crawford/Fawcett/Hopkins families in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.This week we can look at the extraordinary quilt handed...
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Freedom's Friends #1: Letitia George Still---A Circle of Friends
 Freedom's Friends #1Circle of Friends by Georgann Eglinski(with a few added dots to fill empty corners)This year's Block of the Month for Civil War Quilts is Freedom's Friends, recalling a group of...
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Fredericka Weisener Mandelbaum's Civil War
Civil War New York City was the center of the North's commercial life. As we are interested in dry goods --- fabric--- we can look at Fredericka Wiesener Mandelbaum (1825-1894) who ran a thriving...
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Sarah Barnhart Daihl's Civil War
 Sarah Ann Barnhart Daihl (1815-1887) about 1880When the Civil War began in 1861 Sarah Barnhart Daihl was about 46 years old, mother to two daughters and seven boys aged 1 year to 25. The older...
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American Stars #4: The Morgans
 American Stars #4 Prosperity's Star by Becky Brown Prosperity's Star recalls the Morgan family who've been prosperous for generations.Prospect Farm, Princeton, New JerseyThe couple under the tree must...
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Charlotte Gaulden's Civil War
 Georgia quilt in a Tennessee museumhttps://quiltindex.org//view/?type=fullrec&kid=22-18-1918A little bluer photoMcMinn County Living Heritage MuseumAttributed to Charlotte LaFayette LeSueur...
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American Stars: Links to the Monthly Patterns
 The pieced Block of the Month here for 2022 at the CivilWarQuilts blog is American Stars. Below links to the free monthly patterns.Jeanne Arnieri is one of our model...
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The Banks Brigade of Cambridge, Massachusetts
 A few founding members of the Banks Brigade of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1863In the fall of 1861, sixteen girls from elite families of Cambridge, home to Harvard University, met at the home of Jane...
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Freedom's Friends #2: Lucretia Coffin Mott, Quaker Finery
 Block #2 Quaker FineryQuakers were not much for feathers, plumes and finery. Rather they dressed themselves in good works. No one personifies Quaker ethics better than Lucretia Coffin Mott.Sarah Smith...
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Single in Boston Before & After the War
 International Quilt Museum Collection 1997.007.0859Turkey red on white signature quilt dated 1850 & 1851, Boston, Massachusetts37 signatures, most affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal...
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Freedom's Friends: Pattern Post Links in 2022-23
 Freedom's FriendsBlocks 1 & 2Georgann EglinskiOver the next months I'll post links to the 2022-23 applique Blockof the Month patterns here at CivilWarQuilts.The patterns are fairly simple...
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Amelia Hightower Calhoun's Civil War
 A quilt that is difficult to date.The pattern, generally called a Double Irish Chain, was popular in red & green for decades from 1840 into the 20th century. The fabrics, described as a green...
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American Stars #5: The Allstons: Mariner's Compass
 Block # 5 Mariner's Compass by Becky BrownMariner's Compass recalls a Southern family, the Alstons who lived near the Atlantic.Charleston, South Carolina under siege in 1780 by Alonzo ChappellThe...
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Another Quilt Stolen & Rescued
The United Daughters of the Confederacy organization in Franklin, Tennessee in 1900.Veterans from the Union and the Confederacy supported periodicals catering to their interests in the late 19th and...
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Edna Cable Stanton's Civil War
Quilt attributed to Edna Cable Stanton (1828-1890)Johnson County, TennesseePieced & appliqued about 1880?Quilted by Anna Stout in 1953The repeat: The family called it Shooting Star.The Tennessee...
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Freedom's Friends #3: Charity Still--- Wreath of Hearts
 Block #3 Wreath of Hearts by Becky BrownSydney Steele/Charity Still (ca. 1780?-1857)Assuming a new identity, Charity Still must have chosen her name carefully. Charity, a Christian attribute, is often...
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North Scituate Massachusetts SAS Quilt
 New England Quilt MuseumQuilt made for a Union soldierSo many album quilts were made for the Sanitary Commission to distributeto Union hospitals but so few survive.Below is a story from the National...
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A Few Mariner's Compass Four-Patches
 LauraMother's Day theme in Laura's Block #5 for American StarsSuzieThe block recalls the Allston family.Thistle TomoSuzanneStephanieRobertaLutgardeLaneJoanEricaElsieDenaChristineI Photoshopped Dena...
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