Quilt pattern: Barbara Frietchie Star [Filler]

This quilt pattern is displayed at the General John A. Logan Museum in Murphysboro, Illinois. I asked the director about the name of the quilt pattern. He reported that it’s called “Barbara Frietchie Star,” adding that “Frietchie became forever associated with the Union Cause in the Civil War as the heroine of the 1863 poem ‘Barbara Frietchie’ by John Greenleaf Whittier in which she pleads with an occupying Confederate general, ‘Shoot if you must this old gray head, but spare your country's flag.’”

From her Wikipedia entry: “Barbara Fritchie (née Hauer; December 3, 1766 – December 18, 1862), also known as Barbara Frietchie, and sometimes spelled Frietschie, was a Unionist during the Civil War. She became part of American folklore in part from a popular poem by John Greenleaf Whittier.”
» John A. Logan Museum
» More about General John A. Logan from my 2012 post
» The Poem

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Looking back
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 2 years ago: No post
 3 years ago: “New driver's licenses”
 4 years ago: “Mosaic plant”
 5 years ago: “Green grass, blossoms ’n’ snow…”
 6 years ago: “Forsythia (in the Olive tree family)”
 7 years ago: “Remember the ‘Snake Light’?”
 8 years ago: “Who disturbs my slumber?”
 9 years ago: “Rose periwinkle”
10 years ago: “Blades of green…”
11 years ago: “Proof of Life [to come]!”