Jennie Wade House Section-Letters/memoirs S/L #24594

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But Grant’s war of attrition began to take its toll in a more insidious way

MARILYN KROWL REXILIUS

The growing slave trade and the enactment of Black codes placed the city's Black women within the rigid confines of a social hierarchy ordered by race and gender

Jennie Wade House Section-Letters/memoirs S/L #24594During 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