Jennie Wade House and Monument

Original Vintage Card
  
Sale Price: $6.95
Original Price: $11.95

Stock #:333668
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: Gettysburg
State: Pennsylvania (PA)
County: Adams
Publisher: A.C. Bosselman & Co.
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

Additional Details:
Miss Jennie Wade was killed the morning of July 3d, while attending to household duties in a little brick house on Baltimore Street, near the National Cemetery. She was the only citizen of Gettysburg who was killed during the battle. The house is now used as a free war museum and shows hundreds of marks of bullets and shell. The monument marks her last resting place in the Citizen's Cemetery

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