Civil War Era References

Kentucky Quilts 1800-1900; The Kentucky Quilt Project by John Finley
Plain and Fancy; Vermont's People and Their Quilts As A Reflection Of America
by Richard L. Cleveland and Donna Bister
For Purpose and Pleasure; Quilting Together In Nineteenth-Century America by Sandi Fox
Hearts and Hands; Women, Quilts, and American Society by Elaine Hedges,
Pat Ferrero, and Julie Silber
The Smithsonian Treasury: American Quilts by Doris M. Bowman

History of the Sanitary Commission. http://www.civilwarhome.com/sanitarycommission.htm
Report on thee USSC. http://www.mith.umd.edu/courses/amvirtual/sanitary/sanitary.htm
Information on the USSC. In 1861 President Lincoln signed a bill making the USSC an official agency.
http://www.forttejon.org/ussc/ussc.html
Purchase the Sanitary Commission Bulletin at the following web site:
www.civilwarmed.org/shop/product.htm?id=2000.
National Museum of Civil War Medicine www.civilwarmed.org
Articles on the homespun dress www.uttyler.edu/vbetts/homespun_intro.htm
List of Southern dyes used during the Civil War www.uttyler.edu/vbetts/dye_table.htm
History of Southern Women during the Civil War www.uttyler.edu/vbetts/