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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • TIMELINE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 1: "Petticoat Plotters"- Quilts for Freedom's Fair
  • CHAPTER 2:
    • "Emancipation Without Proclamation"- Quilts and the Underground Railroad
    • PROJECTS- Underground Railroad, Birds in the Air
  • CHAPTER 3:
    • "Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!"- Union and Secession Quilts
    • PROJECTS- Blue and Gray Battle Quilt, The Constitution and Union Forever
  • CHAPTER 4:
    • "Heart and Soul in the Cause"- Quilts from Soldiers' Aid Societies
    • PROJECT- Sanitary Commission Nine-Patch
  • CHAPTER 5:
    • "The Hearts and Hands of the People"- Fairs on the Home Front
    • PROJECT- Northern Lily and Southern Rose
  • CHAPTER 6: "In War time"- Hardship, Homespun and Linsey
  • CHAPTER 7:
    • "It Didn't Look Like a Yankee Person Could Be So Mean"- Quilts Buried with the Silver
    • PROJECTS- Order No. 11, Pea Ridge Lily
  • CHAPTER 8:
    • "Every Star Brighter than Before"- Comemorative Quilts
    • PROJECT- Log Fence
  • ENDNOTES
  • APPENDICES:
    • General Instructions
    • Utility Quilting
    • Binding
    • Inking
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Title: Quilts From the Civil War: Nine Projects, Historic Notes, Diary Entries
Author/Designer: Barbara Brackman, Terry Clothier Thompson
Format/Publication Date: TPB:1997
Publisher: C&T Publishing, Lafayette, CA
Language: English
Page Count: 128
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 1571200339

SUMMARY- I like the mix of historic anecdotes and patterns. Mom didn't have any of Barbara Brackman's books, but I think she would have found them interesting if she'd ever run across any of them. I found this one in our used book shop and was happy to pick it up. I love reading the history of old textiles and the people who created them. I was very pleased with this first exposure to Ms Brackman's efforts to preserve our histories, and look forward to finding more of her work.