Jennie Wade House heritage Release date: March 2023

Release date: March 2023

Stonewall Jackson took to the field with his Army of the Valley for one last fight—one that would also turn out to be his last independent command

Union colonels and Confederate generals

Their lives argue that those who seem to matter least in military history are the very ones who can tell us the most about the experience of war and the reasons for remembering

fought successful legislative battles to advance the Federalist agenda

Jennie Wade House heritage Release date: March 2023During 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