Raynors HCA 2017-12
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/7/2017
Autograph Letter Signed 3pp. octavo, Frederick, Maryland, May 6, 1910, and reads in part: “...Barbara did exist and lived on the street back of us. She was an old woman during the war and a devoted Union womand and frequently talked with a friend of mine about ‘our country’ and in dark times bade him he of good cheer, that the Lord would bring us out all irght. On the way to Antietam in Sept. ‘62 Jackson did not pass her house, but about 75 yds to the west of it, but the main body of Rebels did pass. It is generally understood here that the flag incident did not occur though she was of the type where very capable of the action....” Very good condition. Barbara Fritchie (1766-1862) was a Unionist during the Civil War. She was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and married John Casper Fritchie, a glove maker, on May 6, 1806. She became famous as the heroine of the 1863 poem Barbara Frietchie by John Greenleaf Whittier, in which she pleads with an occupying Confederate general to "Shoot if you must this old gray head, but spare your country's flag."
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