Jennie Wade - The Young Gettysburg Bread Baker

The Battle of Gettysburg was fought on July 1, two, and three, 1863. July three, was a Friday. About 8:30 that morning, 20-year-old Miss Mary Virginia (Jennie) Wade was at property and busy baking bread for hungry Union soldiers. At the Farnsworth property, practically 2 blocks away from Jennie's dwelling, a Rebel sharpshooter was perched in hiding. Considering the Wade dwelling was a Union headquarters and hoping to choose off a Yankee officer or soldier, the Confederate sharpshooter fired a single bullet toward the Wade residence.

The sniper's bullet passed by means of 2 doors of the Wade residence just before it struck Jennie in the modest of her back just beneath the left shoulder blade. Jennie died instantaneously as the bullet tore by way of her heart.

Jennie Wade started each and every day reading from the Bible. The passage she occurred to read on July three, was; "Wait on the Lord; be of very good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart." Death was abundant at Gettysburg in early July of 1863. The Union suffered around three,155 killed and the Confederacy about three,903 killed. Miss Jennie Wade was the only civilian killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.

You can check out the Jennie Wade Property in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. When you stop by Jennie's property, you can see exactly where the north side of the household is blemished with more than 150 bullet and shell holes from the Gettysburg battle. On show at the Wade home, is the bullet that killed Jennie Wade, the young bread baker.

Congress later declared that the United States flag be flown more than Wade's tomb. The United States flag nonetheless flies there now in honor and memory of Jennie Wade and of all innocent civilians killed in the Civil War.

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