Author: Jennifer Chiaverini
Year: 2011
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Historical fiction, Fiction
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9780452297609
0452297605 |
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The New York Times bestselling author of the Elm Creek Quilts series joins the Dutton list with a Civil War-era tale of love and sacrifice behind Union lines.
With The Union Quilters, Chiaverini delivers a powerful story of a remarkable group of women coping with changing roles and the extraordinary experiences of the Civil War.
In 1862 Water's Ford, Pennsylvania, abolitionism is prevalent, even passionate, so the local men rally to answer Mr. Lincoln's call to arms. Thus the women of Elm Creek Valley's quilting bee are propelled into the unknown. Constance Wright, married to Abel, a skilled sharpshooter courageous enough to have ventured south to buy his wife's freedom from a Virginia plantation, knows well her husband's certainty that all people, enslaved and free, North and South, need colored men like him to fight for a greater purpose. Sisters-in-law Dorothea Nelson and Charlotte Granger wish safe passage for their learned husbands. Schoolmaster turned farmer Thomas carries Dorothea's Dove in the Window quilt with him. Charlotte's husband, Dr. Jonathan Granger, takes more than a doctor's bag to his post at a field hospital. Alongside the devotion of his wife, pregnant with their second child, Jonathan brings the promise he made to his unrequited love, Gerda Bergstrom: "My first letter will be to you."
Together with the other members of the circle, the women support one another through loneliness and fear, and devise an ingenious business plan to keep Water's Ford functioning. That plan may forever alter the patchwork of town life in ways that transcend even the ultimate sacrifices of war.
This book is part of the "Elm Creek Quilts" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "The Giving Quilt"
First published in 2012
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 | "Sonoma Rose"
First published in 2012
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 | "The Wedding Quilt"
First published in 2011
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 | "The Aloha Quilt"
First published in 2010
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 | "A Quilter's Holiday"
First published in 2009
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 | "Circle of Quilters"
First published in 2006
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 | "The Sugar Camp Quilt"
First published in 2005
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 | "The Christmas Quilt"
First published in 2005
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 | "The Master Quilter"
First published in 2004
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 | "The Quilter's Legacy"
First published in 2003
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 | "The Runaway Quilt"
First published in 2002
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 | "Round Robin"
First published in 2000
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