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		<title>The Condolence Letter to Lydia Bixby</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/09/11/the-condolence-letter-to-lydia-bixby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the Civil War, Lydia Bixby was a poor woman of Irish descent, living in Boston, whose sons were serving in the Union Army. Historical accounts tell us that she received the following (now famous note) from President Abraham Lincoln who fully believed the story relayed to him that she had lost all five sons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Book Not to Miss: Love Amid the Turmoil</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/08/26/a-book-not-to-miss-love-amid-the-turmoil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Love Amid the Turmoil: The Civil War Letters of William]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[He called her &#8220;Dollie&#8221;; she called him &#8220;Peaches.&#8221; A book now permanently records the love between William Vermilion and his wife, Mary, who wrote letters to each other during the Civil War. Now in print, thanks to the University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Iowa, the invaluable volume is the diligent work of editor, Donald [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on a Rainy Day</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/08/15/thoughts-on-a-rainy-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sherman's March to the Sea]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On this rainy New England day, my thoughts turn to the time of the Civil War and all of sufferings the Union soldiers endured. Mucking through swamps and rivers, they often slept unprotected on the ground, subject to ants, scorpions and other creatures crawling up their pants legs. While on the march, food often consisted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Ration of Rum</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/08/09/a-little-ration-of-rum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This little essay is an historical view on the subject of drinking alcohol. This week, my dear husband revealed that there were more deaths from tainted water during the Civil War than the Revolutionary War. Why? During the earlier war, the soldiers were given a ration of rum that was added directly to their drinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Queen of Obscure Facts about the Civil War</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/08/07/queen-of-obscure-facts-about-the-civil-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 03:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t ask me to tell you about the sequence of Civil War battles, the different names that the North and the South assigned to the same battles, or military strategies. I&#8217;d be completely lost. A phobia of memorizing that kind of information prevented me from ever thinking about being a history major in college days. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helicopter Crash in Afghanistan Claimed as a Taliban Victory</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With sadness of heart, I saw the news report today of 30 more American deaths of special operations military members whose helicopter was shot down. The Taliban is claiming victory for the attack. My thoughts turn to the &#8220;Home of the Brave&#8221; volunteer quilters who have already created and distributed more than 4,500 commemorative quilts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love and Valor: Intimate Civil War Letters Between Captain Jacob and Emeline Ritner</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love and Valor: Intimate Civil War Letters Between Captain Jacob and Emeline Ritner is a very compelling book based on actual letters sent back and forth to Captain Ritner of Iowa, most of them between he and his wife. The letters tell the story of the day to day experiences and impressions of a soldier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historical Events</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/05/10/historical-events/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 17:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As they are happening, events of historical importance are often taken in our stride as just another report on the evening news. When we are bombarded with the same news, night after night, with problems we can&#8217;t readily change, it is the natural human response to begin to be weary of the reports. Last night, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom Comes at a Price</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/04/26/freedom-comes-at-a-price/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, wanting to watch something on television with some substance, I changed the channel to PBS only to find a documentary film that outlined the persecution of homosexuals in the United States and the decision of some of them to fight back. The year was 1969. I was just ending my high school career [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nineteenth Century</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/04/01/the-nineteenth-century/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I sat quilting today, by hand, I had some time to think. I was pondering the completely unfathomable life that people in America lived during the nineteenth century. Simple things, like keeping one&#8217;s own teeth, must have been a major challenge in a day before six-month office visits, x-rays, dental floss, and toothpaste with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Julia Louisa Lovejoy and Events Leading to the American Civil War</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/02/21/julia-louisa-lovejoy-and-events-leading-to-the-american-civil-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first knowledge of a New Hampshire woman named Julia Louisa Lovejoy came while I was researching the life and times of her niece, Ellen Emeline Hardy Webster (1867-1950). Julia and her husband Charles were staunch abolitionists (people who oppose slavery) who belonged to the Methodist Church. In fact, he was a minister. They set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Guicciardini Quilt: Conservation of the Deeds of Tristan</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/01/20/the-guicciardini-quilt-conservation-of-the-deeds-of-tristan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This photo provided by Kathryn Berenson is a close-up view of the Guicciardini quilt, companion to a quilt at the V&#038;A in London and one in a private collection. A note from Kathryn Berenson of Paris: I write in reference to a new English-language title, The Guicciardini Quilt: Conservation of the Deeds of Tristan, released [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conformity and One&#8217;s Place of Standing in Society</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/01/19/conformity-and-ones-place-of-standing-in-society/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Susan B. Anthony]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Susan B. Anthony: The Biography of a Singular Feminist by Kathleen Barry ((New York and London: New York University Press, 1988), page 58, states these words of Susan B. Anthony: Women might work like galley slaves for their own relatives, receiving only their board and clothes, and hold their social position in the community; but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Anna Littlefield</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/01/04/dr-anna-littlefield/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Little did I know, when I was writing an article for The Quilter a few months ago, that there is a terrific article online about one of the people whom I mention. The memory of Dr. Anna Littlefield, a physician in New London, New Hampshire, is kept alive by her great nephew, Lloyd Littlefield who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Fire That Changed America&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/01/03/the-fire-that-changed-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little more than three months before my father was born in 1911, a tragic and unforgettable fire in New York City&#8217;s garment district resulted in 146 deaths (mostly women). Little known to the textile workers located in the uppermost reaches of a building, managers had locked them in. It is assumed that someone threw [...]]]></description>
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