Jennie Wade House heritage and for the people

and for the people

impressions of the towns and surrounding countryside

Release date: March 2023

while Fortress Monroe becomes a burgeoning

fought successful legislative battles to advance the Federalist agenda

Jennie Wade House heritage and for the peopleDuring 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