Frietchie v. Jackson

  According to the poem, we could determine that both Barbara Frietchie and Stonewall Jackson were doing the right thing.Babara Frietchie was willing to contribute herself by risking her life to get the flag of oppenents. Stonewall Jackson was intelligent enough to identify the right and brave that an old woman would venture for her country, so he decided to order his troop not to injure her.
  The story is admitted by all that Barbara Frietchie was no myth, but a worthy and highly esteemed gentlewoman, intensely loyal and a hater of the Slavery Rebellion, holding her Union flag sacred and keeping it with her Bible; that when the Confederates halted before her house, and entered her dooryard, she denounced them in vigorous language, shook her cane in their faces, and drove them out; and when General Burnside's troops followed close upon Jackson's, she waved her flag and cheered them. Stonewall Jackson, another hero character, did a right thing.While their army was marching through the town, he heard the words which Barbara Frietchie said. He felt guilty and humiliate about it. Then, he commanded the soldiers not to touch the old lady, because he knew that she was protecting her own country, even sacrificed herself. From the action he did, we could see that he respect his enemy.