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Image: Barbara Frietchie (poem)

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Description: Illustration of "Barbara Frietchie" by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) with inset portrait of American Civil War patriot Barbara Fritchie (1776-1862), on whose story the poem is based, and a picture of her grave. "'Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, / But spare your country's flag,' she said."
Title: Barbara Frietchie (poem)
Credit:   This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3a02122. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. العربية | čeština | Deutsch | English | español | فارسی | suomi | français | magyar | italiano | македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | polski | português | русский | slovenčina | slovenščina | Türkçe | українська | 中文 | 中文(简体)‎ | 中文(繁體)‎ | +/−
Author: Unknown. Published by Morgan, W.J., & Co.
Permission: PD-US
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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