Jennie Wade, killed in the kitchen of her sister's house by a stray rifle bullet the morning before, was buried hastily in a coffin said to have been built for a Confederate colonel, in the back garden at around five in the afternoon. She was later moved to a Lutheran Churchyard and then, in November 1865, to the Evergreen Cemetery in the town. Her soldier fiance "Jack" Skelly, who died of wounds in Virginia a few days later, lies nearby. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
J.W. Johnston, The True Story of "Jennie" Wade, A Gettysburg Maid (Rochester, NY: J.W. Johnston, 1917), p. 27.
Record Data
Date Certainty
Exact
Type
Personal