| The Battle of Gettysburg was fought on July 1, 2, | | | | and he shall strengthen thine heart." Death was |
| and 3, 1863. July 3, was a Friday. Around 8:30 | | | | abundant at Gettysburg in early July of 1863. The |
| that morning, 20-year-old Miss Mary Virginia | | | | Union suffered approximately 3,155 killed and the |
| (Jennie) Wade was at home and busy baking | | | | Confederacy approximately 3,903 killed. Miss |
| bread for hungry Union soldiers. At the | | | | Jennie Wade was the only civilian killed at the |
| Farnsworth house, almost two blocks away from | | | | Battle of Gettysburg. |
| Jennie's home, a Rebel sharpshooter was perched | | | | You can visit the Jennie Wade House in |
| in hiding. Thinking the Wade house was a Union | | | | Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. When you visit Jennie's |
| headquarters and hoping to pick off a Yankee | | | | home, you can see where the north side of the |
| officer or soldier, the Confederate sharpshooter | | | | house is blemished with over 150 bullet and shell |
| fired a single bullet toward the Wade home. | | | | holes from the Gettysburg battle. On display at |
| The sniper's bullet passed through two doors of | | | | the Wade house, is the bullet that killed Jennie |
| the Wade house before it struck Jennie in the | | | | Wade, the young bread baker. |
| small of her back just below the left shoulder | | | | Congress later declared that the United States |
| blade. Jennie died instantly as the bullet tore | | | | flag be flown over Wade's tomb. The United |
| through her heart. | | | | States flag still flies there now in honor and |
| Jennie Wade began each day reading from the | | | | memory of Jennie Wade and of all innocent |
| Bible. The passage she happened to read on July | | | | civilians killed in the Civil War. |
| 3, was; "Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, | | | | |