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Miriam Davis Colt: Went to Kansas
 Miriam Davis Colt (1817-1905), about 1880when she was in her early sixtiesWhen the Civil War began in April, 1861 New Yorker Miriam Davis Colt was suffering physically, emotionally and financially....
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Atlanta Garden #10: Walls of Jericho
 Atlanta Garden #10: Walls of Jericho by Jeanne ArnieriWalls of Jericho reminds us of Atlanta's dark days with hercitizen's expulsion and deliberate destruction by the Union Army.A Union soldier (are...
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Mary Shawhan Dudley's Civil War
  Mary made a wondrous quilt but we have no idea what it looked like or where it is today. It seems, however, to have included everything. When the Civil War began Mary Birch Shawhan was living in...
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Herbarium #8: Two Open Wreaths for Susan Fenimore Cooper
 True Lover's Knot & Poke Berries by Becky Collis.You get two similar blocks this month.Two patterns thus month, one with leaves & a floral and one with berries. You'll need 13 blocks if you...
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Lucy Proper Thompson's Civil War
 Lawrence, Massachusetts, a New England mill town, 1854When the Civil War began in 1861 widowed Lucy Proper Schuyler, 48 years old, had recently married John Thompson and was living in Lawrence, Essex...
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Atlanta Garden #11: Stars & Stripe
 Atlanta Garden #11: Stars and Stripe by Denniele BohannonMarietta Street, fall, 1864Atlanta's city flagpole was bare when George Barnhard recorded the Union occupation in the photo above but several...
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Label for Atlanta Garden
 Print this label out on treated fabric. It's about 4" x 6".There's plenty of room for your information.Wendy Coffin finished her version for her guild show.Becky Brown put her I Spy black and white...
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Mary Ellen Neese's Civil War
 Quilt signed Mary Ellen Neese (1838-1906), dated 1861Collection: Kansas Museum of HistoryThe donor thought it might have been made in Shawnee County, Kansas.In looking through quilts dated in the...
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Herbarium #9: Laurel for Harriet Beecher Stowe
 Herbarium #9: Laurel by Denniele BohannonLaurel from the Shelburne Museum's samplerHarriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)Photo by Southworth & Hawes, about 1850.Florence, Christmas Day,...
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2024 Pieced BOM: Washington Whirlwind
 Next year's pieced Block of the Month series here at the Civil War Quilts blog is scheduled to start on January 10, 2024 with twelve blocks published as free patterns on the second Wednesday of each...
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Atlanta Garden #12: Union Circle
Atlanta Garden #12: Union Circle by Denniele BohannonOur last block Union Circle remembers the Union patriots in Atlanta, the Berrys, Markhams, Healeys and others.Right after Christmas, 1864 Carrie's...
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Barbara Freitchie's Civil War
 Star pattern called Star Puzzle or Pieced Star in the early 20th centuryIn May, 1931 Needlecraft Magazine published an article by Helen Rockwell Adams who'd visited the recreation of Barbara...
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Herbarium # 10: Strawberry Wreath for Mrs. Robinson
 Herbarium # 10: Strawberry Wreath for Mrs. Robinson by Becky BrownAfter months of looking for the design source---a pattern or teacher who designed the eight Herbarium quilts---we have to give up. We...
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Finishes: Atlanta Garden
 Nocturne Atlanta GardenMartha Claassen  Elsie RidgleyShawn PriggelTeresa WoodPost your finishes on our Facebook group page:AtlantaGardenQuiltBOMhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/536276161894534
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Washington Whirlwind #1: Whirlwind
 Washington Whirlwind #1: Whirlwind by Jeanne ArnieriWhirlwind is the theme here for the 2024 BOM on the Lincoln White House. We could focus on some tragic aspects of war's whirlwind: fatal illness,...
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Mary Alice Catlett Vance's Civil War
 Quilt associated with Mary Alice Catlett Vance (1863-1948)"MAC Age 16... August 20 79," the year she married.Anderson, South Carolina.Photo from the North Carolina project & the Quilt...
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Civil War Quilts For Sale
 A couple of weeks ago I typed the words Civil War Quilt in ebay's search feature and got 54 hits; about half were reproductions and repro fabrics (good place to buy some.)But 26 were purported to be...
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Herbarium #11: Wood Bine For the Tool of the Trade
Herbarium #11: Wood Bine for the Tools of the Trade by Becky Collis"Wood Bine," is the name embroidered on the botanical sampler in the collection of the Shelburne Museum. The plant looks like what we...
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Mary Tirzah Barnes's Civil War
 Double Irish Chain, 1850Quilt in the collection of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian.One inked block in a corner is said to read Mary T. Barnes,...
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Washington Whirlwind #2: Boy's Playmate
 Washington Whirlwind #2: Boy's Playmate by Becky CollisMary Todd Lincoln Photo by William Mumler, 1865During the social whirlwind of a new presidential administration in the spring of 1861 Mary Cook...
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