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Apr 24, 2024 · American Civil War. Barbara Hauer Frietschie (born Dec. 3, 1766, Lancaster, Pa. [U.S.]—died Dec. 18, 1862, Frederick, Md.) was an American patriot whose purported act of defiant loyalty to the North during the American Civil War became a highly embellished legend and the subject of literary treatment. Barbara Hauer was the daughter of German ...
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Barbara Fritchie (1766–1862) is a central figure in the history of Frederick, Maryland. A Unionist during the Civil War, she is best known for her folkloric defiance in the face of Confederate troops. As the occupying rebel forces were marching out of Frederick in September 1862, Dame Fritchie, then 95, was said to have waved a Union flag ...
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Barbara Frietchie. Green-walled by the hills of Maryland. Horse and foot, into Frederick town. Of noon looked down, and saw not one. To show that one heart was loyal yet. Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. He glanced: the old flag met his sight. “Halt!”— the dust-brown ranks stood fast. “Fire!”— out blazed the rifle-blast.
John Greenleaf Whittier’s patriotic ballad “Barbara Frietchie” is one of the most popular poems ever published in American literature. ... A Biography. Haverhill, Mass.: Trustees of the ...
Jun 20, 2018 · 1. Spelling. Barbara Fritchie's name is also spelled “Frietchie”, Photographed By Allen C. Browne, June 20, 2018. 2. Barbara Fritchie: Civil War Heroine Marker. and sometimes even “Frietschie”. “Fritchie” seems be the preferred spelling but the poem by Whittier spelled it “Frietchie”. An influential article in the Maryland ...
Nov 23, 2011 · When Lee marched over the mountain-wall,—. Over the mountains winding down, Horse and foot, into Frederick town. Forty flags with their silver stars, Forty flags with their crimson bars, Flapped ...
Nov 7, 2017 · “Barbara Frietchie,” a stirring saga of 30 verses, was practically required reading for generations of American school kids. It was written for Atlantic Monthly by John Greenleaf Whittier, the newspaper editor and zealous anti-slavery activist. Generations of students—myself included—were assigned the task of memorizing it (“Up from ...
