Winston Churchill and Barbara Frietchie-- Part 1

Here is a story that goes between two wars.

The Winter 2019 issue of Civil War Monitor had an article titled "The Barbara Frietchie Caper" by Stephen W. Sears, which in effect debunked the whole story of the famed Barbara waving the U.S. flag at Confederate troops passing through her Frederick, Maryland, on their way to the Battle of Antietam in 1862.

You know, the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier that had the couplet:

"Shoot if you must, this old grey head,
But spare your country's flag."

Well, that story gets another line during World War II with that great English statesman Winston Churchill.

Wonder What It Was.  See the Next Post.  --GreGen