Ladies Aid Album #3: Floral Cockade by Becky Brown
We can look at this eight-lobed design as a cockade,
a handmade show of support for the the Union or the Confederacy,
quite fashionable in the war's early days.
Woman wearing a cockade
Francis Brownell (1840-1894) of Troy, New York joined the 11th
New York Volunteers, the Fire Zouaves, in the first weeks
of the Civil War.
Two fez-wearing New York Zouaves perhaps from a rival unit
Duryea's Zouaves
Frank Brownell in his more conventional hat, a kepi, wears decorations on his chest
although the war had just begun. (He eventually received
a medal of honor.) Two ornaments look like cloth cockades.
Union cockade with George Washington
Floral Cockade by Barbara Schaffer
Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth (1837-1861)
a New Yorker who studied law in Illinois
with Abraham Lincoln, accompanied
the new President to Washington.
Charlotte Augusta Gibbes Astor (1825-1887)
By John Sully. She was born in Charleston, South Carolina.
The Astor House Hotel on Fifth Avenue, 1867
"The Ladies of the Astor House" (Did they live there or meet there?)
Floral Cockade by Barbara Brackman
All dots
General John Jacob Astor III
The Fire Department's contribution was described in the newspaper:
A Motto at the top "The Star Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave" and
images of a helmet, a hook and ladder...
A few years ago that flag museum exhibited Zouave flags.
In mid-July New York's women continued their war work, presenting a hand-sewn flag.
Floral Cockade by Denniele Bohannon
Stationed in Washington Ellsworth was infuriated by a Confederate flag flying over James Jackson's Alexandria inn visible from the White House and all of the Union capitol. He decided to remove a Confederate symbol by storming Jackson's house. Jackson killed Ellsworth and Frank Brownell shot Jackson. The killing had begun.
Scraps of "Ellsworth's Flag" were snipped as souvenirs....
The fate of many flags
The Block
A better picture. The sun came out!
Floral Cockade by Bettina Havig
Rosettes like cockades were a fashionable New York pattern
early in the album fad.
From an album by Elizabeth Jennings Hopkins of Port Jefferson, Long Island,
New York---based on six lobes. See the whole quilt below.
Our pattern is based on eight (easier to fold and cut.)
Found in a sampler dated 1847 from Maltaville, New York
The Maltaville ablum has several cockade-like blocks.
Print this out on an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet.
Private Charles Sanford Hopkins of Duryea's Zouaves
Virginia Historical Society
