245 Lizzie's Tents

© 2010 32" x 37" There are numerous reports of women who secretly served in the Civil War in order to be with their husbands and boyfriends (see my pattern named Mary Smith's Dishrag). Lizzie Compton, a woman who secretly served in Kentucky and Michigan cavalries, moved from tent to tent seven or eight times when she was discovered and ejected from one regiment and then joined another as soon as possible. The triangles in the 3.5" x 5" blocks look like tents that she might have camped in.