Desc: Barbara Frietchie: Directed by Herbert Blaché. With Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, Mary Miles Minter, Guy Coombs, Fraunie Fraunholz. An old woman in Frederick, Maryland during the U.S. Civil War displays her American flag in defiance of the armies of Confederate general Thomas J. Jackson. Based on the folk tale that grew from the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier.