Jennie Wade House museum a bronze statue

a bronze statue

but none he dreaded more than telling his two youngest sons

The Battle For Gettysburg-Two's: What Was It Like For the Citizens of 1863

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He's not seen a ghost himself

Jennie Wade House museum a bronze statueDuring the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1 3, 1863, young Gettysburg native Mary Virginia Jennie Wade rode out the firestorm at her sisters home, Mrs. J. Lewis McClellan, baking bread and supplying water for the nearby fighting Union soldiers. During the early morning hours of the final day of battle, a stray Confederate snipers bullet, believed to have been fired from the Farnsworth House, passed through two doors and struck Jennie in the back, killing