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'Covered in glory': Commemorative, antique Civil War quilts featured in new Grout Museum exhibit

Read More: http://wcfcourier.com/lifestyles/covered-in-glory-commemorative-antique-civil-war-quilts-featured-in/article_ab9c48cf-54f5-5342-a1db-9cf9c3776762.html#ixzz1kK2fMrkY


WATERLOO, Iowa --- At the end of the Civil War in 1865, it is estimated that Northern women quilted nearly 250,000 quilts and comforters for Union soldiers, distributed through the Sanitary Commission.

Southern women made "gunboat quilts" to raise funds that eventually purchased three ironclad gunboats for the cause. As the war began in earnest, the quilts were sold to raise funds for medical supplies for the Confederacy, according to quilt historians. Fabric became scarce in the South, and women made their own homespun fabric by picking apart items like old mattresses.

Few Civil War-era quilts survive today, experts say, because they were lost or worn out and thrown away, and in some cases, used to wrap soldiers for burial.

Read More: http://wcfcourier.com/lifestyles/covered-in-glory-commemorative-antique-civil-war-quilts-featured-in/article_ab9c48cf-54f5-5342-a1db-9cf9c3776762.html#ixzz1kK2qRwlZ