The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-06
Romance of Bar
71ara FrietChie.
Continued from Pnne IN

INNS al Lee passed through our
|av oufith his army | posted my
|on patti one of the upstairs win
ow, where | had a full view of
erdat passed below on the
Light. When General Lee pass
mn q front of Mrs. Frietchie's
ay 20 and mine he and his whole
Oul halted, and | afterwards
veftained, (this was in West
Mer eek street, that General
nopoewall Jackson. (who had
IA. ,)h, encamped north of our city,
|pofin his army, was coming up
tno alley or Bentz street. SO
,tIe ;ral Lee waited until General
ar son and his army had pass.
,n,Aw All the time that General
~ tok stopped in front of Mrs.
Nh 6chie'S house | saw no flag
Nv Ding. If there had been any
- "tainly should have seen it,
seas for General jackson, he
M,,fOt pass over the bridge, but
+ .wnother street. Ii there was
|ne, tning like flag waving at
orch Frietchie's house it was
|neTa General McClellan's army
Pthnted through in pursuit of Gen
nc Lee, four or five days later.
Apen McClellan's army passed
|EaL ugh our city we were iubi
Mon and came out with our flags
B3 ,ytof my family is under the
COMPRESSION that Mrs. Frietchie
|wh,I out with her small flag to
tefrOnt door, and at the same
o, an officer was passing who
81 posed from her manner Of
eN ling it that she intended it for
@sr He accordingly reached up
oili ,u she handed it to him. This,
y, ~ think, is all about the flag wav-
+ IL. The fact is Mrs. Frietchie
d." no flag in the house of a
Ser size than twelve or sixteen
Mes square. The courageous
kutt that | noticed in her con.
cou during our capture was that
laN. ,er coming home one day when
bill .space in front of her house
SURF, full of rebel soldiers. Then
JacT pushed her cane between
|ShFm and said: Get up, you dirty
eDwS, and let me in"
M LEY AND BARBARA FRET.
onle CHE.
my"n an issue of the Utica Sat.
dientdy Globe, several years ago.
res in Schley, of Indianapolis, a
few sin of Admiral Winfield Scott
|mo alley, told of the interesting
"es when they were boys to
Ncher in Frederick. One of
|nroInir favOrite and most enjoyable
bur ersionS, Mr.. Schley says, was
Inns tease Barbara Frietchie, the
MIR rOine of the poem.
hi s,r' Barbara" says Mr.. Schley,
|Eli' las an irascible, hot headed
bis man, who was a holy terror to
)" people of Frederick, and as a
.a,ult she was a particular object
bl9ur fun making. Her husband
is a maker of buckSkin gloves.
VI . Frietchie house was located
rSStt where Patrick street crosses
"" town creek, the waters of
'hueich laved one side of its foun.
pro lions. Patrick street is a con-
p leuation of the National road
I: Nch was a great artery of trade
ieS ough which the commerce of
west in those days found its
Jy to the eastern markets, there
rill Dg as yet no railroads. Hun.
Eicl dis of wagons rolled through
Pn ederick every day, and Fret
yea ,e's business was manufactur.
|WeE rough buckskin handmade
lauoves for the drivers-a business
Ter which he and his brother-in.
Wiz together had monopoly
heikt made them independently
Il off.
'The bane of Frietchie's exis.
" ce was Barbara, his wife, who
ON so subdued and cowed him
Or 1t he was one of the meekest
En lie men imaginable. | remem-
IL that Scott and | used to take
cat delight in playing beneath
el| windows. She was probably
f } most tactful enemy the Com
Bplldore ever had to deal with.
If # resources for getting even
re manifold, but her favorite
was to- catch us in an un
arded position and throw kitch-
litter on our heads. From my
Ia collections of her | should say
at she was just the kind of
oman who would perform the
ri)lhardy trick of waving flag
" the face of 10000 armed enc.
sS-and@take keen delight in
Pl frien, :"
10 him heforeq ~ OF MRS. VIRGIE
Mr.. Peppery-Oh,
III shaved Observation-Disclosures 50 i.
The Kind Of "Ist." 'ie
IT. The Washington Times want
know things: Senator Aldrich
clares that Democrats are silver n
n nometallists. We are happy to sta
that his diction does not make the
H. "a. But what kind of an list is \