Courtesy National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
(right) This quilt was made in 1863 by Susannah Pullen of Augusta, Maine, and her Sunday school class following U.S. Sanitary Commission guidelines for bedding for the Union Army in the Civil War.
Gift of Mrs. Charlotte Pullen Scruton
Civil War and Reconstruction
How did the course and character of the Civil War impact the way Americans participated in philanthropy?
How did philanthropy affect the successes and failures of reconstruction after the end of the Civil War?
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