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United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 9.73
h the town, on the street which connects with the road to Boonsboroa, a young girl about ten or eleven years old was standing on the platform in front of a framed wooden house, on the left side of the street a's we marched, with a small flag (United States), of the size commonly called candy flags, in her hand, which she was slowly waving while reciting, in a dull, monotonous tone, Hurrah for the Stars and Stripes! Down with the Stars and Bars! By her side stood another girl about five or sixnd thereupon he moved on. The other incident occurred farther on — I think just across the bridge in the western part of the town. As the Louisiana brigade (Hays') was passing, a coarse, dirty-looking woman rushed up a narrow alley with a United States flag, very much soiled, which she thrust out of the alley, when an Irish soldier in the brigade, with his ready Irish wit, made a remark about that dom'd ould dirty rag, as he called it, which sent her back with her flag in a hurry, and no ef
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 9.73
ed a number of instances of the display of small flags, or the Union colors, as they were called, by ladies in the enemy's country as we passed through their towns, but I never heard of an instance in which any violence or rudeness was used by our officers or soldiers on such occasions; though, when the exhibitions became obtrusive, our boys were always ready with a good-natured witticism or jest that put an end to these exhuberant displays of patriotism. I have also seen ladies, even in Pennsylvania, wave their white handkerchiefs to our troops. Whoever is disposed to claim the honor of either of the two incidents in Frederick that I have mentioned, is entirely welcome to do so. I will add that I have been informed by a gentleman who was for a long time a citizen of Frederick that Mrs. Barbara Frietchie, or her husband, was a descendant of one of the Hessians that were brought over to thrash into obedience another set of Rebels ; and if she had been the heroine of the incident wh
Lynchburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 9.73
ich the Hessians fought, and hence, perhaps, his admiration for the supposed exploit of one of their descendants. I have seen within the last year or two a letter or statement from Barbara Frietchie's niece denying that her aunt had hoisted the flag or been fired on, but saying that she had driven off some of the ragged, lousy Rebels from her house with a broomstick — and who would not run from an old woman with a scurrilous tongue in her mouth and a broomstick in her hands? J. A. Early, Lynchburg, April 26, 1875. Letter from Mrs. Frietchie's nephew. I have just read a communication to the Sun purporting to set. forth certain facts in relation to the life and character of the late Barbara Frietchie, the heroine of Whittier's celebrated war poem. It may not be improper to state that I am the nephew of Dame Barbara, and had the settling up of her husband's estate in the capacity of administrator. This necessarily threw me into frequent communication with that aged and venera
Los Angeles (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 9.73
t is being continually republished in collections of his poems, and has been introduced into several school readers which are widely circulated, it seems proper that we should place in permanent form the refutation of this slander of Stonewall Jackson and the brave men he led: Letter from General J. A. Early. Having seen in a recent number of the Dispatch a communication from Frederick, Maryland, to the Baltimore Sun, in relation to a letter from An ex-confederate to the Los Angeles (California) Bulletin, endorsing the authenticity of the oft-repeated story of Barbara Frietchie's flaunting the old flag in the faces of General Jackson and his troops, and being fired upon by the General's order, and also an article in the supplement to the Sun of the 24th instant containing two letters from Frederick to disprove the story; and having been appealed to twice to take some notice of it — once when it appeared in a historical magazine published in Philadelphia, I believe; and agai
Swan Point (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 9.73
; though if the poet means to assert that the flags which had the silver stars were the same that had the crimson bars, forty was a goodly number to have floating over one little town. If the flag which Barbara picked up had been hauled down, then it must have been hauled down from a standing flag-staff; and it must have been rather a lofty feat for her to pick that up, too, and set it in her attic-window. But I suppose it was an allowable poetic license for Mr. Whittier to convert the Potomac river into a mountain wall, and one dingy old flag, hoisted probably over a quartermaster's office, into-- Forty flags, with their silver stars, Forty flags, with their crimson bars. Eighty or forty, as the case may be, however, he ought to have accounted for the other seventy-nine or thirty-nine, and not left them to be trampled in the dust by the Rebel tread that came up the street with Stonewall Jackson riding ahead, even by poetic license. If they were forty regimental flags, and t
Frederick, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 9.73
er of the Dispatch a communication from Frederick, Maryland, to the Baltimore Sun, in relation to a the morning wind over the clusted spires of Frederick, there must have been eighty in all; though e 5th, and his corps reached the vicinity of Frederick on the afternoon of the 6th of September, 18en Colonel) Bradley T. Johnson (a citizen of Frederick up to the beginning of the war), being poste I am very confident that he did not go into Frederick until the morning of the 10th, when his commof Harper's Ferry. The General went through Frederick, with.a cavalry escort, in advance of his trnd. On the morning that we passed through Frederick, on the expedition for the capture of Harper the honor of either of the two incidents in Frederick that I have mentioned, is entirely welcome tccasion of Stonewall Jackson's march through Frederick. Truth requires me to say that Stonewall Jadistinguished General and his forces through Frederick, bedridden and helpless, and had lost the po[5 more...]
California (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 9.73
nd prevent any depredations on the citizens. The other divisions were halted and camped near Monocacy Junction, near which General Jackson also camped; and I am very confident that he did not go into Frederick until the morning of the 10th, when his command marched for the capture of Harper's Ferry. The General went through Frederick, with.a cavalry escort, in advance of his troops, who did not pass through the town until he was some distance beyond it. The so-called ex-Confederate in California who says that Stonewall Jackson ordered his dust-browned ranks to halt in front of Mrs. Frietchie's house, and that a bullet from his gun was one of the many that hit the flag she held, if he indeed was ever a Confederate soldier, has strayed as far from the truth in the tale he tells as he has from the land of his birth. It is possible that he may have once been in the Confederate army, but if so I venture to affirm that all the shooting he ever did was with a long bow. If he heard Gene
Frederick Junction (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 9.73
of the 6th of September, 1862, under the command of General D. H. Hill. One division (Jackson's own), under the command of General Starke, marched through Frederick that evening, and camped in the vicinity--one brigade of the division, under command of General (then Colonel) Bradley T. Johnson (a citizen of Frederick up to the beginning of the war), being posted in the town to preserve order and prevent any depredations on the citizens. The other divisions were halted and camped near Monocacy Junction, near which General Jackson also camped; and I am very confident that he did not go into Frederick until the morning of the 10th, when his command marched for the capture of Harper's Ferry. The General went through Frederick, with.a cavalry escort, in advance of his troops, who did not pass through the town until he was some distance beyond it. The so-called ex-Confederate in California who says that Stonewall Jackson ordered his dust-browned ranks to halt in front of Mrs. Frietchi
Jackson (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 9.73
of them dropping its flag in the panic. Now, I suppose it is useless to quarrel with the license which a poet takes with his subject, but I presume it is allowable to say that our poet in this case has taken an equal license with all the other facts of the case. General Jackson had been severely injured by a fall of his horse on the 5th, and his corps reached the vicinity of Frederick on the afternoon of the 6th of September, 1862, under the command of General D. H. Hill. One division (Jackson's own), under the command of General Starke, marched through Frederick that evening, and camped in the vicinity--one brigade of the division, under command of General (then Colonel) Bradley T. Johnson (a citizen of Frederick up to the beginning of the war), being posted in the town to preserve order and prevent any depredations on the citizens. The other divisions were halted and camped near Monocacy Junction, near which General Jackson also camped; and I am very confident that he did not
Winchester, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 9.73
ace, I must give an extract from what the writer in the Sun calls Whittier's lofty numbers, as follows: On that pleasant morn of the early fall, When Lee marched over the mountain wall-- Over the mountains winding down, Horse and foot, into Frederick town, Forty flags, with their silver stars, Forty flags, with their crimson bars, Flapped in the morning wind: the sun Of noon looked down, and saw not one. Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then, Bowed with her forescore years and ten; Bravest of all in Frederick town, She took up the flag the men hauled down. In her attic-window the staff she set, To show one heart was loyal yet. It must be confessed that these are pretty tall figures; especially when it is remembered that General Lee's army crossed the Potomac a short distance above Leesburg, in Loudoun county, and did not have to cross any mountains at all to get into Frederick. Then, too, if there were forty flags, with their silver stars, and forty flags, with their crimson bars,
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