Barbara Frietchie

By Whittier, John Greenleaf

Book Id: WPLBN0002951121
Format Type:
File Size: 6.63 MB
Reproduction Date: 2006

Title:	Barbara Frietchie
Author:	Whittier, John Greenleaf
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Poetry, Poetry
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Barbara Frietchie; by John Greenleaf Whittier
Historic Publication Date:	1864
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Greenleaf Whittier, B. J. (1864). Barbara Frietchie. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
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)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Poetry