On September 16, 2005, we visited The Brick House Museum in Kennebunk, Maine that owns a Civil War Quilt made in 1864 by the Ladies Aid Society, Portland, Maine.

The striking quilt features a poem on the back:

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The quilt was a gift from Mrs. Fordyce Perkins in the name of her mother, Mrs. Annis Edna Boynton, in 1951.

The “potholder” style quilt has four blocks across and five blocks down that were finished separately and whipstitched together. The appliqué motifs include:

Bunting flag “Portland”, star in center, “1884” lighthouse with flag w/ inked inscription bunting

Anchor Bible drum center stars

Crossing flags eagle with arrows on left, barge or gunboat? Two color star

Cannon and cannon balls cartridge bag and water canteen cannon cannon balls

American flag crossing swords pieced basket with written inscription bunting flag
stylish handle

Background: brown with variable tint (home-dyed?). Appliqués: red and blue.

Here is a photo of another quilt of the same style, an “early quilt-as-you-go” or “lap quilting” method. Each block is made separately and bound and only then joined together by whipstitching. What appear to be sashings are actually two block edges coming together.

Photo taken by James Cummings at a rural Maine quilt show

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