Jennie Wade House Section-Letters/memoirs MARILYN KROWL REXILIUS

MARILYN KROWL REXILIUS

through the photographic series which comprised the last substantial postwar coverage of the field itself before the memorial craze adorned the area with monuments and avenues

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

Honorable Mention

Jennie Wade House Section-Letters/memoirs MARILYN KROWL REXILIUSDuring 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