Show The Alabama Quilt In nt the department of archives and history in iii Montgomery Montgomer cry ery er is one of the most famous quilts in the world which w ich finds there is permanent resting place after many wanderings It is the quilt made by Confederate ate women during the civil war to be auctioned for the benefit of the fund for the building of the warship Alabama which caused the Feder Feder- Federals Federals Federals als a lot of trouble before she was finally sunk on June 19 1864 by the Kearsarge off France After the quilt was made it was put up at auction and time and again gain the lucky bidder would do do- donate nate ate it bacK to be auctioned again Thus hus Thus it passed through many man hands lands and from it t was realized much of the money the money for the purchase of f the ship It finally came of Mrs Mary Iary Hutchinson Owens who pr pre it to the state as a I of f the Lost Lest Cause The Alabama was commanded by the he intrepid Rafael Semmes and during her eventful career of two years captured one Federal steamer and no less than 67 sailing vessels besides causing the transfer of Federal ships to the British flag Her ler destruction by the commanded by Captain Winslow was a great relief to the Federals The Alabama went to the bottom of the sea the was de de- destroyed destroyed de- de destroyed long after by being wreck wreck- wrecked ed on a reef in 1894 but the Alabama's quilt wrought by loving hands in ii what they consider considered ed cd cause is preserved for forin posterity in the crade of the Con Con- |