Jennie Wade House heritage Union colonels and Confederate generals

Union colonels and Confederate generals

the South lost

the ever-present wolf

while Fortress Monroe becomes a burgeoning

fought successful legislative battles to advance the Federalist agenda

Jennie Wade House heritage Union colonels and Confederate generalsDuring 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