The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-19

erick, who declare that the facts told
by Mr.. Nixdorff are correct and were
adds: WI NiAuorh
III this occurred at Mrs. Mary Guam
re! 3, we would not be surprised at
other point" 81 ''-'
Mrs: Mary Quantrell, who is described
Ny MI. Nixdorff as the woman from
whom the flag was torn, is said to be
'ne real heroine of the incident by many
other people, although all agree that
oIonewall jackson was not the officer
VINO ordered the troops to desist. The
onIy surviving daughter of Mrs. Mary
Vuantrell lives in Washington. She is
Mrs Virgie Quantrell Brown. a clerk in
the Postoffice Department living at 1874
seventh street, northeast. Last week
she described the flag incident as told
Dy her mother and handed down as
legend of Frederick She said:
My mother was standing on the
'front.' porch when the Confederate
troops came marching out West Pat
rick street. leaving Frederick. The
mouse OF old Barbara Frietchie was
some distance away from our house. on
the same street. General Jackson did
not pass by either our house or Bar
bara's. but made a detour and entered
the street near the outskirts Of the
loWh. My mother was very patriotic.
ana when the troops came by playing
Maryland, My Maryland she cried out
that Maryland had not Joined the
South, but was still in the Union. So
she rushed in and brought out a small
Union f1U and fa ~ r..
porch. General Lee came by in his
carriage, and sent one of his staff Off
GERS, General Hill. to ask her to take
down the flag. Mother refused to do
so, and General Hill very politely said:
Well. madam, General Lee wants il as
souvenir. VIII you not give it up?"
Hacking Down the Flag.
Mother replied, No, sir will not
lie then said, Well. madam. if you side
with the North, why don't you take it
III and make an apron of it?' Quick as
a Hash mother cried, L will. when / am
III need or clothes as much as your men
are. The general laughed and rode off
out some soldiers who heard mother
say this, sprang up and cut at the staff
with their bayonets. They hacked it
In two, and tore down the flag. but
WOther hurriedly put out a second one.
That too, shared the fate of the
nrst, and so mother desisted. General
Hill heard the shouting, and came
back TO see what was the matter. When
he was told. he ordered the soldiers to
leave mother alone, and threatened the
ofending ones with arrest.
hat evening old Barbara Frietchie
put ont big Union flag when General
Burnside entered Frederick. and as the
general passed by her house. he pub
iiciy complimented her on her patriot
Ism. That night several newspaper
correspondents came to mother and
wanted TO know if she was the heroine
OF the flag incident about which all
Frederick was talking but father was
away from home. and mother was
AFRAID OF newspaper notOriety. so she
begged the correspondents to- say moth
Ing about 1t. They went down the
street, and heard everyone talking of
Barbara Frietchie's flag. and how Burn
side publicly complimented her. so they
concluded she was the real heroine. but
after Whittier wrote his poem and
made Barbara famous her relatives
claimed that the old dame Barbara was
the one who had the flag torn from
her hands. Mother did not wish to be
involved in an attempt to belittle the
deed of one who was then dead, for
Barbara died soon afterward. so she
let the matter drop. But all Frederick
knows the real truth of the matter"