Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-07
AN HISTORICAL QUILT.
The Wonderful Crazy Work Production o
a Southern Lady.

The Wonderful Crazy Work Production of
Southern Lady.
Mrs. Montgomery, of Alabama. who
is the guest of her daughter, Mrs
Smith, of Pine street, has just COM
pleted an historical quilt of great value.
In its manufacture she has displayed I'M
usual taste and ability as an artist.
This piece of patchwork is composed
of several hundred pieces of bright
colored silks and satins and velvets
and ribbons put together with and EN-
broidered in as many different stitches
of bright silk. Besides. there are sew
enty-seven paintings in water coIors on
satin of the principal events of the late
war and the prominent officers of both
sides, copies of various magazines and
photographs, all of them excellent like
battlefields and important places are
wonderful part, however, is that it was
all accomplished in ten months. In
the center of the border at the top
there is picture of s'Peace," repre-
sented by Confederate and I'm
ion officer standing with clasped
hands, their colors folded. In
the center of the quilt is another
| picture, that of the swearing in of JEFF
ferson Davis as President of the Confed-
| crate States. and in one corner is star
cut from the Confederate flag that float
ed above him at the time. Scattered
about over the quilt are sketches of the
different battles, and grouped around
each scene are the officers of both sides
who took part. There are twenty-eight
landscapes and forty-nine pictures of
Federal and Confederate officers, cabinet
SIZE Among them are Generals Lee,
Jackson, Beauregard, Bragg, Buckner,
Hood, Hardee, Polk, Floyd, Pendleton,
Albert Sidney johnson, j. E. johnson,
Price, Whiting, MacNeil, Law, Hamp-
ton, Morgan, Stuart, Breckenridge,
Tilghman, Longstreet, Mitchell, A. P.
Hill, Toombs, Fitzhugh Lee, Jones, Pei
ham, Buchanan, Tutnall, Mcintosh,
Wilkinson, Grant, Mcclellan, Hancock,
Meade, Thomas, Porter, Anderson, Far
| ragut, Sherman, Kearney, Mccall, But
! Ter, Mason and Slidell, and Presidents
Cleveland and Hendricks. Of the land
scapes there are: '.Fort Sumpter" before
and after the bombardment, "Centralia, :"
Bull Rum Manassas junction, -
Robinson House, Henry House, -
malvern Hill.'' Fort Donelson, -
''Grant's Headquarters, ''Buckner' S
Headquarters, ..Morgan's Men," GA
Corn-fed,' The Spot where Albert
Sidney johnson Fell THE Spot where
j. E. B. Stuart Died. '.Merimac Land
ing" Fort Henry and Iron Clads, -"
Island No. TO-" Battle of Gettys-
burg" ''Sudly Springs" Capture of
Pou1it's Battery 'ssherman's Head
quarters, advance of Mcclellan, -
Grows Nest, Capture at Richmond
and 1.-The Drummer Boy of Shiloh. "
In the border of the quilt are inserted
panels in which are painted the pictures
of the most prominent of the Generals
mentioned. In addition to this, Mrs.
Montgomery has made a scrap-book OF
grasses and ferns collected at points OF
interest, which she has ingeniously COM
bined with water-color paintings so as
form exquisite little bits of landscape,
and on her walls hang number OF
beautiful oil paintings, excellent copies
from the masters.-,St Louis Post-Dis-
| patch.