Confederate Generals order troops "Leave them Alone", Frederick & Middletown, Maryland. Yankees at Marshall House, Alexandria, Virginia
Here's a few stories from 3 different historical markers I've visited regarding how southern Americans/Confederates treated defiant border-state civilians waving Union flags. And, 1 story about how Yankees reacted. ------------------------- In Middletown, Maryland: Excerpt from the historical marker: As Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson rode through Middletown on September 10 1862, two very pretty girls with ribbons of red, white, and blue in their hair and small Union flags in their hands ran out to the curbstone, and laughingly waved their colors defiantly in the face of the General. He bowed and lifted his cap with a quite smile and said to his staff, “We evidently have no friends in this town.” –Henry Kyd Douglas, I Rode with Stonewall (this historical marker and others have since been removed). -------------------------------------------------------- In Frederick, Maryland, Excerpts from 2 historical markers: Marker #1: “Feisty local Unionists-mostly women-ta...