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Location: Jennie Wade
House
Gettysburg Pennsylvania.

Plaque Reads:
JENNIE WADE, AGED 20 YEARS 2 MONTHS
KILLED HERE - JULY 3, 1863
WHILE MAKING BREAD FOR THE UNION SOLDIERS
Jennie Wade House cellar.

Soon after Jennie Wade was killed, her
body was moved to the cellar and kept there for about 18 hours. Jennie Wade's
body was placed onto a wooden bench and covered with a quilt. She was then
buried in her sister's yard for about 6 months, then transferred to a cemetery
adjoined to the German Reformed Church, until her final resting place in
November 1865, in the
Evergreen Cemetery.
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Location: Jennie Wade Monument
Evergreen
Cemetery Gettysburg, PA.



Mary Virginia Wade or "Jennie" was born in this house
on Baltimore Street, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on May 21, 1843. |
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