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The Union Quilters
In 1862, the men of Water's Ford, Pennsylvania, rally to President Lincoln's call while Dorothea Granger marshals her friends to "wield their needles for the Union." Meanwhile, Anneke Bergstrom hides the shame she feels for her husband's pacifism; gifted writer Gerda Bergstrom takes on local Southern sympathizers in the pages of the Water's Ford Register; and Constance Wright struggles to help her husband gain entry to the Union Army-despite the color of his skin. As the women work, hope, and pray, the men they love confront loneliness, boredom, and danger on the battlefield. But the women of the sewing circle also forge a new independence that will forever alter the patchwork of life in the Elm Creek Valley.
Reviewer: Lilyraines
Review: May 20, 2012
Genre(s): Mainstream / General, Historical Fiction
The Union Quilters is a story that covers a lot of ground in different ways during a tumultuous period of time in American history.
It is, at once, a story of war, love, courage, loyalty, strength and principle. It is also about how all of the above are related, how they can forge bonds, and how bonds can be torn apart.
The strength is of character, of self, of being able to go on in spite of loss and grie
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