Civil War Remembered ~ Block 3

Seven Sisters

We are in Week 3 of Barbara Brackman's

2011 Civil War Quilt.

http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/

I visited the Civil War Museum on

Monument Circle in Indianapolis today.

"It is well war is so frightful, else we would

grow too fond of it."

General Robert E. Lee

...we could see the Stars and Stripes floating

over the parole camp.  It was too far away to

 even see the stripes, but we knew it was

"the old flag" and as it floated out I felt as if

I loved it as never before.  Perhaps every

American would appreciate it more if he were

obliged to live for a while out from under its

protection.  "Long may it wave, o'er the land

of the free and the home of the brave."

Joseph Taylor Elliott

We were taken out...and marched across the

James River to Bell Island.   ...men die more

or less everyday with cold and hunger.  Our

rations per day are two spoons full of beans

and a little piece of cornbread equal to a half

pint of meal.

Thomas Horan

But oh!  I shall never forget the looks...of some who

were there to welcome our return...  As they gave

us their hands, their eyes looked past us, peering,

 looking for someone who would never come.