Wade was known for her bountiful, warm loaves of homemade bread. When the war came, she joined the action the only way women could-by volunteering her time producing rations and healing wounded soldiers. She came from a large family and loved reading, baking bread, and stitching socks and scarves for the struggling members of the Gettysburg community. That infamous battle would change everything.īy all accounts, Wade was a kind, charitable and virtuous person. Jennie was on the verge of adulthood when the Civil War came to Gettysburg.

Mary and Jennie worked out of their home as seamstresses while caring for a local family’s young disabled son, Isaac. But that was only the start of a rough life for young Jennie Wade. James was later committed to a sanitarium, or a mental asylum, for his violent and unpredictable behavior.

Their father, James, was frequently absent-a drunk, a mean man, and generally not a rule follower. Her mother, Mary, practically raised Jennie and her five siblings alone. Hard BeginningsĬhristened Mary Virginia but called Jennie, Wade was born, raised, and killed in Gettysburg. One of those innocents was Jennie Wade, an ordinary woman who has captured the hearts of all who’ve dared to visit her house. Gettysburg was home not only to one of the bloodiest and most decisive battles of the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg address but also to good innocent people whose lives changed during that fateful battle. Only in Gettysburg can you stroll from one street and pass through multiple centuries of history and hauntings.īecause the city is so old, it’s one of the most haunted in America.

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