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Related Historical Markers
By Craig Swain, September 3, 2007
Markers and the Barbara Fritchie House
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
1 ► Maryland, Frederick County, Frederick — Barbara Fritchie House — “Shoot if you must this old gray head, but spare your country’s flag.” — Antietam Campaign 1862 —  |
| As the Confederate army marched through Frederick on September 10, 1862, feisty local Unionists—mostly women—showed their defiance by waving the Stars and Stripes. The poet John Greenleaf Whittier immortalized one of them in “The Ballad of Barbara . . . — — Map (db m2693) HM | |||
| 2 ► Connecticut, Litchfield County, Litchfield — Oliver Wolcott Jr. Home — |
| Oliver Wolcott Jr. Home Presented By Helen J. Fitzgerald to the Litchfield Historical Society In Loving Memory Of Her Husband Harold Fitzgerald 1878 - 1948 — — Map (db m229365) HM | |||