Show DECLARES IT FICTION 1 BEAUTIFUL POEM WHITTIEBS NOT FOUNDED ON FACT I I I Barbara Freltchie Was Not Seen by When He En Stonewall Jackson I tered Frederick Henry Kyd 2lGcn New York April on the staff Douglas who was an officer lectured In of Stonewall Jackson Iecturel j great Cooper Union last night on that the I soldier Gen Douglas described entry Into Frederick Barbara I Frcflchle lived but Gen Jackson never States owned a United sav her If she able to never flag Gen Douglas was find it out Certain ho Is she never I In chal casement waved It from here lenge to the Confederates I Gen Jackson never even passed Barbara Freitchlea house said Gen believe I Douglas It seems hard to that all that beautiful poem is I fiction I but the fact remains Not even bet relatives will sanction the story I Gen Jackson Just before an entry Into Frederick had been seriously serious-ly 1 injured by a fall from a horse that I had been presented to him by some or his admirers We were obliged to I place Gen Jackson in an ambulantL and stop at Bests grove about three miles mom Frederick I Gen Jackson on the following Sunday Sun-day evening Insisted pn being taken Into Frederick In the ambulance to attend church He did not return I to lon again until the morning of the supposed Incident September 10 1862 Then we again took him Into town In the ambulance We stopped at the corner of Patrick and Main streets and there he asked some of th5 citizens misleading qucstlonn about the surrounding sur-rounding country Then he directed that I drive with him to the residence of the Rev l Dr Ross the Presbyterian Cltig maim whose church we had attended at-tended on the preceding Sunday evening even-ing H was still MO early Dr Rosa was not up so we left a card We drove the ambulance past the present rourthouse past the home of William Bant then I down Mill alloy to Mlddlctown pike when we reached JacksonM column and rode up to tho front We did not pass Barbara Fieltchle house I Barbara Freltchle I have learned after long and painstaking Investigation Investiga-tion was DC years old at that time She was helpless and almost blind No soldier of our army and resident of Frederick paw a flag at her window Hor relatives with whom I have talked admit that there is no foundation founda-tion for the story on which Whlttlcr has written such a beautiful poem Mrs E D N Southwortb the novelist nove-list and consequently unhampered by facts is sald to havo given Whltller the story T was with Jackson all the time he was In the vicinity of Frederick Freder-ick and 1 can say that the beautiful poem in all myth |