Barbara Fritchie House, Frederick, Maryland - Discussion
Anonymous
· Oct. 30, 2025, 8:58 p.m.
Discussion thread for Barbara Fritchie House, Frederick, Maryland.
Barbara Fritchie, age 96, is the heroine of The Ballad of Barbara Fritchie, written by John Greenleaf Whittier in 1864. During the Civil War, she was a Union sympathizer who dared to wave her Union flag in the face of the Confederates and Stonewall Jackson. Some historians say the event never...
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