Jennie/Ginnie Wade

Gallagher: “Yes! And until then, there was only Jennie Wade13 at Gettysburg”(35).

Note Mary Virginia “Jennie” Wade, also referred to as Ginnie, was the only civilian to die as a direct result of combat during the Battle of Gettysburg. After several bullets and an artillery shell struck her sister’s home during the first two days of battle, the twenty-year-old white woman was struck by a stray bullet while baking bread or biscuits in the kitchen on July 3, 1863. A statue was placed on her grave in Evergreen cemetery in Gettysburg in 1900, and a statue of her, completed in 1984, sits in front of the home, now a museum, where she was killed.. . .