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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.
The popularity he enjoyed among his contemporaries seems to have been based largely on poems ("The Barefoot Boy“ and “Barbara Frietchie,” for example) that modern readers have rejected as sentimental. A reaction against the kind of soft-focus vision of the world that Whittier too often invoked set in during the early years of the 20th ...
Jul 1, 2012 · The Barbara Fritchie Classic, a motorcycle race at the Frederick Fairgrounds on East Patrick Street, is held every Independence Day. It is the oldest-running half-mile in the country. Staff file ...
Nov 30, 2016 · Conducted by the Barbara Fritchie Memorial Association, these efforts procured enough money to build a fitting monument, but not to the scope once imagined. An early rendering for a Fritchie memorial was depicted on a postcard, and captured both literally and figuratively Dame Fritchie’s “larger than life” persona.
The Barbara Fritchie house, part of the Civil War Trails, is located in historic downtown Frederick at 154 West Patrick Street alongside the Carroll Creek Canal. Contact For more information on the Barbara Fritchie House and Museum.
Barbara Frietchie: Directed by Herbert Blaché. With Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, Mary Miles Minter, Guy Coombs, Fraunie Fraunholz. An old woman in Frederick, Maryland during the U.S. Civil War displays her American flag in defiance of the armies of Confederate general Thomas J. Jackson.
Barbara Frietchie. (1924 film) Barbara Frietchie is a 1924 American silent war drama film about an old woman who helps out soldiers during the American Civil War. It is based on the play of the same name by Clyde Fitch that had starred Julia Marlowe at the turn of the century which in turn was taken from the real-life story of Barbara Fritchie.
