Jennie Wade House Section-Letters/memoirs the Gettysburg Address as a

the Gettysburg Address as a watershed that turned the war from a fight for Union into one for Union and emancipation

and People

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

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

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Jennie Wade House Section-Letters/memoirs the Gettysburg Address as aDuring 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