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JOHN PAUL JONES
CHAPTER III
SAILOR AND PATRIOT
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John’s big brother lived at Fredericksburg, in Virginia, less than a hundred miles from that other Frederic town, where good old Barbara Fretchie waved her American flag from her attic window a hundred years later as the Confederate troops marched by. So he made his way to his brother’s home, and announced that he was in port for a brief stay.
The gallant little sailor of thirteen years was received in the pleasant home, and spent most of
