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Name: Barbara Fritchie House, Frederick, Maryland
Location Type: Other
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Coordinates: 39.415779, -77.412756
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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...