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Barbara Frietchie

by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)

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)

• Bartleby e-text
• Wikipedia – John Greenleaf Whittier
• Wikipedia – Barbara Frietchie (person)
• LibriVox’s Barbara Frietchie Internet Archive page
• Zip file of all versions (6.6MB)
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mp3 and ogg files

• Version 1 – 00:03:23
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 3.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.8MB]
  Read by: Kristin Hughes
• Version 2 – 00:03:07
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.4MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.9MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.7MB]
  Read by: Kymm Zuckert
• Version 3 – 00:03:31
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 3.3MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.8MB]
  Read by: Laura Fox
• Version 4 – 00:03:45
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 3.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 2.0MB]
  Read by: Westwinds12