Civil War Women

A superb source for Civil War re-enactors, this engaging history details the biographies of nine women along with guidelines to reproduce nine period quilts.

North and South, black and white—the story of the War Between the States is embedded in the soul of every American. In her second book on quilts and the Civil War, Barbara Brackman introduces nine women who lived during those turbulent times, matching each woman to a quilt that she might have made herself.

• nine projects adapted from per...