hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 22 4 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 20 0 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 12 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 11 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 11 7 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life 10 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Short studies of American authors 6 0 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 6 4 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience 6 0 Browse Search
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904 6 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). You can also browse the collection for Whittier or search for Whittier in all documents.

Your search returned 6 results in 1 document section:

Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The real Barbara Frietchie. (search)
flag to the Union forces as they were passing through Frederick City. * * * Mr. Whittier took a poet's license in making her defy with her flag the rebel General in troops passed Barbara Frietchie's house. There is not one single incident in Whittier's poem that has an historical foundation. It is pure poetic myth from start tlation to the life and character of the late Barbara Frietchie, the heroine of Whittier's celebrated war poem. It may not be proper to state that I am the nephew of tranger fact with regard to this matter may be here presented—viz: The poem by Whittier represents our venerable relative (then ninety-six years of age), as nimbly as the help of her attendants. These are the true and stern facts, proving that Whittier's poem upon this subject is fiction, pure fiction, and nothing else, without eit in their scrap books. The myth is sure to bob up again. We can all admire Whittier's poem; it is almost a pity that the incident isn't true, but facts are facts,