" . . . When she was itchy," Poet Ogden Nash famously said of BARBARA F.--rhyming her surname with one of the 28 possible spellings of Fritz-she. In a 2001 poll of Maryland academicians, Barbara still was considered to be the third most important female that state had ever produced. A total unknown until she was 95-years-old, she became immortal by defying Gen. Stonewall Jackson and his "famished horde" of sharp-shooters when they marched under her bedroom window in 1862. Within a few months, Jackson himself was gunned down for High Treason, and Barb expired in her bed at the age of 96. John Green-Leaf Whittier scribbled out a 30 stanza or 60-line batch of couplets about Maryland's bravest resident, which Nash boiled down to a verse of four lines. This picture and a half dozen other early Tinsel Town flicks try to capture Barb's essence, but her best portrayal is by Bullwinkle J. Moose (Bill Scott) during "Bullwinkle's Corner" on Thursday, Feb. 11, 1960.

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