The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-07-19
barbara Frietchie vindicsted.

Herald.
Barbara Frietchie Vindicated.
The declaration Of Gen. Henry Kyd
Douglas in a recent speech at Cooper
Union in New York that the incident of
Barbara Frietchie and her flag is a
myth Is not substantiated by the facts
which New York World correspond
ent has gathered.
1t is probably true that Barbara
Frietchie was, as he says, ninety six
years old when ''Stonewalr' Jackson.
in 1852, entered Frederick, but Gen.
Douglas assertion that she was infirm
and helpless is evidently n mistake.
There is plenty Of testimony that she
was in good health and active at that
age, and that she had more than one
national flag in her possession when
Gen. Jackson marched through the
town.
Major GOldsboro, of Frederick, Nd,
has a Letter, dated April 10, 1900, from
Conrad Reno, of Boston, which says:
MY father, Gen. Jesse L. Reno, was in
Frederick on Sept. II and 13, 1862. and
had an interview with Barbara Friet-
chic, who presented him with flag,
which is now in my possession"
The grandniece of Barbara Friet-
chic, who is living In Frederick, show
ed to the World correspondent the silk
flag which Barbara waved in greeting
to the Union troops as they advanced
down Patrick street in hot pursuit of
the retreating Confederates.
Major GOldsboro, who was of the
Eighth Maryland Infantry and return
ed to Frederick on furlough immediate
ly after the battle of Antietam, says
that 1t was of common report in Fred
erick that Dame Frietchie waved a
Union flag at the rebels as they retreat
ed before the Union troops. Gen. Reno
was in command of the Union troops,
and, seeing the aged dame waving the
flag. he halted his men and cried out:
The spirit of TO-
There are many well authenticated
stories of the vigorous manner I'm which
Barbara drove off COnfederates who
were "loafing' on her steps. She piled
her cane vigorously and hustled them
away, hurling after them opprobriOus
epithets.
1t was understood in Frederick about
the time the poem was written by
Whittier that the furloughed soldier
had met the poet at the postOffice in the
latter's town and told to him the story
of Barbara and the flag.
Mr.. Whittier wrote to DIR. jerks, who
was then postmaster Of Frederick, for
more information, and thus learned of
1.-The clustered spires of Frederick
town. and a sufficient confirmation of
the story to warrant him in writing the
poem.
A Gettysburg Incident.
Il see," said resident of Pittsburg
at one of the hotels, that some of the
dead Beers found in the trenches where
lyddite shells had burst were without
visible wounds. Apparently they had
been killed by shock. That recalls to
me forcibly n very remarkable case,
for which can vouch personally. Dur
ing the first days fighting at Gettys-
burg young man named Joe Cady,
second lieutenant in the Twentieth
Pennsylvania, was supposed to have
been killed by a shell which exploded
within a few yards of his head. Later
in the day some passing comrades saw
that he was breathing and carried him
to the rear, where the surgeons made
an examination, and, greatly to their
surprise, could find no wound. The
man was in a profound stupOr, but to
all appearances was physically unhurt.
He was sent to the general hospital at
and from thence to his
home, still in the same condition. Cady
was the son of farmer who lived near
and my own people knew
the family quite well. was n boy not
more than 5 or 6 years old when the
lieutenant reached the old farm, but
distinctly what a sensation
the case created.
For several weeks Cady lay exactly
like one dead, and then, very gradual
ly, he began to emerge from uncOn-
sciousness into a horrible automatic
sort of life, next door to complete
idiocy. He could sit up, and even walk
4 few steps, but his mind was blank,
and the only sounds he uttered were
condition remained unaltered
for nearly three years; then. suddenly,
without warning, he had a seizure like
,atalepsy, from which he awOke in a
few hours in complete possession Of his
reason. He was terribly bewildered, of
course. and had no idea where he was,
but after the shock of waking passed
off he was as sane as ever. During the
years his faculties were in suspense he
sat most of the time with his eyes
closed, and the consequence was that
they We're very sensitive to light. He
mad to wear blue glasses for some time,
but that seemed to be the only bad
,ffect he suffered. Lieut.. Cady became
IN active business man, and died i'm |
1889 or 1890. An autopsy might have
given some clew to his long trance, but |
believe none was held.'-New Orleans |
fines Democrat.
The Process Complete.
Col. Claybank, Il fiery SOutherner |
who went out of the Union when his |
State did, and fought bravely through
he war, refused to be ''reconstructed' |
ifter the war was over.
"Once a Confederate always Con
ederate,' he was wont to say, and al
hOugh he recovered from the bitter
less engendered in the four years of |
trife he regarded himself as an alien
n the restored Union, and refused TO
'ote or to exercise any of the duties Of
citizen