According to her family, Jennie Wade, killed in Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, was due to marry twenty-one year old Corporal Johnston Hastings "Jack" Skelly of the 87th Pennsylvania Volunteers when he got his next furlough.  Skelly, however, was wounded outside Winchester, Virginia on June 15, 1863 and died in hospital this day.  He did not know of his intended's death, as she did not know of his wound when she died. They are buried near each other in the Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg. (By John Osborne)    

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) 

At around 8:30 a.m.,  a single rifle bullet penetrated the north door of the house of Georgia Wade McClellan on Baltimore Street in Gettysburg and hit her sister, twenty-year old Mary Virginia "Jennie" Wade, just below her left shoulder blade as she was kneading dough for biscuits in the kitchen.  She died almost immediately, becoming the one civilian directly killed by gunfire in the Battle of Gettysburg.  She was buried the next afternoon in the garden of the house but  she rests in the Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg.  (By John Osborne)