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TitleBarbara Fritchie House
Date(1951)
DescriptionRANSOMED TOWN … During the Civil War the Confederate army occupied Frederick and General Early demanded that $200,000 be raised or the town would be sacked. The money was forthcoming and afterward the banks floated a loan to repay the townspeople for their contributions. Every year a part of the tax money was set aside for this bond issue and in September, 1951, the final payment was made, eighty-eight years after the demand. The Barbara Fritchie House, from the window of which Barbara Fritchie was supposed to have defied Stonewall Jackson and his army with her famous “Shoot if you must this old, gray head,” is situated in Frederick. Whether the incident actually occurred as related in Whittier’s poem there is some reason to doubt.
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