1:00-3:00 Civil War Slippers for the Sick and Wounded

Slippers for the Sick and Wounded. A pattern to make slippers during the Civil War.

Library of Congress

The outpouring of hand-made goods, funds, and care was so vast that the relief effort was described as “an artery of the people's love to the people's army." This sewing demonstration will tell the story of both the national and local civilian and military efforts to sustain the Union Army. Stop in to see how a historic pattern of slippers aimed at the sick and wounded soldiers were made by women all across the country. (Ready Made Clothing Store.)