Contributed by Belfast Historical Society
Description
Marianne Furber, one of the stitchers of the Belfast quilt wrote a poem on one of the four, small corner flags.
She wrote, "Freemen to arms! Your country's cause in this dark hour demands your aid, God's blessing on the hand that draws in her defence a patriots blade."
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- Title: Civil War flag quilt poem, Belfast, 1864
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