Alice's Tulips by Sandra Dallas

Newlywed Alice Bullock has waved good-bye to her young husband Charlie as he is off to battle the Confederates during the Civil War. Life with her mother-in-law on a farm for capricious Alice is not what she expected when she married Charlie. Times are hard and Alice finds comfort in quilting. A series of letters to her sister, Lizzie, the reader is privy to the thoughts, fears, and hopes of a Midwestern family during this time. Sandy Penton