Soldiers and Sailors

Soldiers and Sailors

Soldier’s “housewife,” 1860s

William Henry Moffett of Baltimore, a First Sergeant in the 8th Maryland Volunteer Infantry, owned this roll-up sewing kit known as a “housewife,” probably made by a female family member, during his service in the Civil War. 

Collection of the Maryland Center for History and Culture, Gift of Mrs. W. Edwin Moffett, in memory of Reginald B. & W. Edwin Moffett, 1958.12.4