#8 & #9

Is this the day we are to announce the winners?  But I'm not done showing the quilts yet; isn't that the truth, there are always more quilts to see!

Chancellorsville

Anyway here is #8, Chancellorsville -  the block is the Virginia Reel block.  Doesn't it make you think of the South - how the young people danced the dance twirling around & around on the floor.

So you see the quilt blocks twirling -

Of course, it was at Chancellorsville that General Lee lost his right hand man Stonewall Jackson, who actually was mortally wounded by his own men at dark as he & his men rode the Orange Plank Road planning a counterattack for the next day. 

It was a turning point for the war favoring the North.

Vicksburg

Here is #9, Vicksburg -

The town of Vicksburg, Mississippi lays high on a bluff along the river.  After many failures, Grant decided that the only way to win Vicksburg was by a prolonged siege of the city. 

The siege began in late May & lasted until July 4th of 1863;  a few days later Grant & his Union forces had taken complete control of the Mississippi Rive & cut off the states of Texas, Arkansas, & Louisiana from the rest of the Confederacy. 

The tides of war were turning.

See the city surrounded in the quilt??


I will post the winners later day!!