eirlooms.
This flag which Mrs. Handschue and her daughter so religiously preserve is torn, but the banner was not rent with seam and gash from a rifle-blast; it is torn — only this and nothing more.
That Mrs. Frietchie did not wave the flag at Jackson's men Mrs. Handschue positively affirms.
The flag-waving act was done, however, by Mrs. Mary S. Quantrell, another Frederick woman; but Jackson took no notice of it, and as Mrs. Quantrell was not fortunate enough to find a poet to celebrate herhe century for June, 1886, that Jackson never saw Barbara Frietchie, and that Barbara never saw Jackson.
This story is borne out by Mrs. Frietchie's relatives.
As already said, Barbara Frietchie had a flag and she waved it, not on the 6th to Jackson's men, but on the 12th to Burnside's. Here is the story as told by Mrs. Abbott, Mrs. Handschue's daughter:
Jackson and his men had been in Frederick and had left a short time before.
We were glad that the rebels had gone and that our troops
Mississippi from Paducah to Columbus, and at Jackson, Bethel, and other places on the Mississippi nsiderably east of south, passes through Jackson, Tennessee, Bethel, Corinth, Tupelo, and Baldwyn, M Central, leaving the Mobile and Ohio at Jackson, Tennessee, runs nearly south, passing by Bolivar a General Grant moved his headquarters to Jackson, Tennessee.
Pursuant to this order, on the 26th ofA. Davies.
From a photograph. miles north to Jackson, on the Mobile and Ohio railway, with all thet's,--in line, with reserves in rear of each; Jackson's cavalry was on the right en échelon, the lees in line of battle and one in reserve, with Jackson's cavalry to the right, was ordered to await the pursuit.
General McPherson, sent from Jackson with five good regiments to help us, arrived ridge]. General Ord, arriving there from Jackson, Tennessee, assumed command and drove back
Groupr with one division and John A. Logan at Jackson, Tennessee, with six regiments.
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