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Show A CIVIL WAR. I h l f 1 HEROINE v v I f g " Story of Jennie Wo.de. Who Wu Killed M I a.t Gettysburg. I Jennie Wade's grave, which is located locat-ed beside her parents in the Citizens' Evergreen cemetery, adjoining the Philadelphia National cemetery, is now marked by a monument which is being erected by the Woman's Relief Corps of Iowa. The dedication took place recently. re-cently. The pedestal is of American giay granite, the four sides of which are highly polished. Surmounting the pedestal stands a fine Italian marble statue of Jennie Wade. On the sub-base, sub-base, in large raised letters, is the name "Jennie Wade." The inscriptions inscrip-tions on the monument are as follows: "Jennie Wade, aged 20 years 2 months, killed July 3, 1863, while making bread for the union soldiers." On the opposite oppo-site side: "Erected by the Women's Relief Corps of Iowa, A. D. 1901." On another side, "Whatsover God willeth must be, though a nation mourn." On the side opposite this, "With a courage born of loyalty she hath done what she could." The committee com-mittee In charge of the erection of the monument, after receiving bids from Tarlous sections of the country, had placed the contract in Gettysburg. It Is modeled after the design selected by Mrs. G. W. McClellan, a sister to Jennie. Jen-nie. It is said that the figure and features fea-tures of the statue present a good likeness like-ness of the heroine. The cost of the monument is about $1,000 and it stands over ten feet high. of the yard that evening by some oi the soldiers, whom she had assisted in various ways, such as carrying water and helping the wounded during the progress of the battle. The people of Gettysburg were between the two armies; ar-mies; nevertheless, as a community they did not desert their homes and remain out of sight. Even the women, many after having been warned to leave the town, remained bravely in their houses. Jennie Wade had been warned repeatedly to vacate the plare, but she had invariably refused to do so. Hurled in a Colonel's Coffin. Curiously it was that at almost the same, moment a confederate colonel fell near the place that Jennie had fallen. The confederates were occupying occu-pying the grounds just then. They had taken care of the dead colonel's body and had constructed a rough coffin cof-fin for his interment, but later a federal fed-eral column took possession of the grounds, the rude coffin was secured and used for the interment of the heroine Jennie. Later her body was removed to the Citizens' Evergreen cemetery, which adjoins the National, where it now rests. Jennie had a correspondent, cor-respondent, to whom she was engaged, and who was in the union army. He fell at Winchester. He was Corporal Skelly, after whom the C-ettysburg G. A. R. post was named. It was Corporal Skelly . who fell first, and ere his love had received the sad news she. too, had met a similar fate. 'Every memorial day, says the Philadelphia Phil-adelphia Record, her grave is decorated with flowers and the small American flag placed thereon by the G. A. R. post. Jennie Wade's House. The house in which Jennie Wade lived at the time of the battle is apparently ap-parently a one-story double brick house, as viewed from the outside, writes a correspondent of the Chicago Daily News. However, on entering, it Is found to have two rooms on the first floor on each side of the house, and a stairway in the rear room leads to a second floor where two plastered rooms are found, each having a small window in the end of the house, the sides of the house being alike. At the time of the battle that neighborhood neigh-borhood possessed fewer houses, and .this one, being located on high ground, was in full view of the confederate sharpshooters, who deemed it as a possible headquarters of the union jarmy, and thus it was that this house was a mark for many bullets. The marks of over a hundred which struck the house have been counted. The holes through the small window panes, sashes a;id doors are plainly visible and apparantly as if made but yesterday. The house at the present time is used ; 1 t 'l MISS JENNIE WADE AND HOME IN WHICH SHE WAS KILLED AT BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG. as a museum and among the numerous relics displayed is. shown the six-inch shell that ,passed through the upper part of the house, entering the room, passing through the middle wall and dropping on the outer side of the house. How Jennie Wade Was Killed. The positions of the doors and the windows of the house are as they were on July 3, 1863. A number of bullets passed entirely through the two window win-dow sashes. The marks of these bullets bul-lets display the position of the windows win-dows and the doors at that time. The door, as seen through the back win-, dow, displays a number of bullet holes which were as clearly pierced as if made by an auger. The bullet that proved fatal to comely Jennie Wade, who was then 20 years of age, passed through the panel of the outer door, and through the door between the rooms, which was opened at the time, and pierced the breast of the heroine, who had been performing her household house-hold duties at the time. Her married sister lay sick abed in the room adjoining at the time, and she, too, had a narrow escape from death. As the shot and shell were flying about one passed through the window of her room, cutting off a portion por-tion of the post of the bed In which she lay. Jennie was buried in the rear |