The heroine is a ninety-year old woman, whose fearless defense of the Stars and Stripes in Frederick, Maryland manages to impress even the invading General Stonewall Jackson.  
Although the title character's house still can be seen, historians are unsure of whether the 1862 incident that this poem describes ever actually took place.   The heroine is a ninety-year old woman, whose fearless defense of the Stars and Stripes in Frederick, Maryland manages to impress even the invading General Stonewall Jackson.  FTP, give the title of this poem, written by John Greenleaf Whittier.
Although the title character's house still can be seen, historians are unsure of whether the 1862 incident that this poem describes ever actually took place.   
"Barbara Frietchie"