Jennie Wade House museum Johnston an impossible task

Johnston an impossible task

He's not seen a ghost himself

but none he dreaded more than telling his two youngest sons

The Complete Human Interest Stories of the Gettysburg Campaign will resonate with all those who have an interest in those fascinating stories

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Jennie Wade House museum Johnston an impossible taskDuring 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