Jennie Wade House frassanito edited by Donald Yacovone

edited by Donald Yacovone

Via the lost art of letter writing

Freedom's Journey: African American Voices of the Civil War (The Library of Black America series)

Carmichael explores the totality of the Civil War experience--the marching

Their contributions and history have remained unheralded in many ways

Jennie Wade House frassanito edited by Donald YacovoneDuring 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