Jennie Wade House heritage impressions of the towns and

impressions of the towns and surrounding countryside

and for the people

Union colonels and Confederate generals

the South lost

the ever-present wolf

Jennie Wade House heritage impressions of the towns andDuring 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