July 27, 2024
Tag: gun-boat quilt
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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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July 7, 2022 4 Comments
The Bonus Expeditionary Force or the “B. E. F.” presented itself to the Washington politicians in the summer of 1932. They were seeking Independence from a reliance on government charity. As many as 25,000 World War I veterans have nearly been forgotten by the historians.