Barbara Frietchie

By John Greenleaf Whittier · Running time 00:13:47 · Poetry, Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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About this book

This was the weekly poem for Flag Day 2006. It tells the largely-apocryphal but nonetheless inspiring story of one old woman’s act of patriotism during a Confederate advance in the civil war. (summary by LauraFox)

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