July 21, 2026
Tag: CSS Palmetto State
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Quilts for a Cause
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“Gun Boat Quilt” was a term given to the raffle quilts made by southern women in order to finance the building of gun boats needed during the Civil War to protect the ports of the southern states and the shipping lanes in and out of southern harbors. This is part of the story.
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October 3, 2021 2 Comments
Children of the North are from a set I bought from a dime-box of unsorted cards and at the time I wondered why they hadn’t been more highly valued. I’ll leave that judgement to the reader.