Three items associated with Jennie Wade, the only civilian to die in the Battle of Gettysburg; on July 3, 1863, Wade was at her sister's house kneading dough to make bread for the Union soldiers when a Minié ball passed through two doors, piercing her left shoulder blade, passing through her heart and killing her instantly. In 1882, the United States Senate voted to grant Wade's mother a pension, citing that her daughter had been killed serving the Union cause—baking bread for the soldiers.
The lot includes: an original 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite portrait of Jennie Wade by Isaac G. Tyson of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; an original vintage glossy 5.5 x 3.25 postcard of the Gettysburg house where Jennie Wade was killed; and a printed Congressional report removed from a bound volume, recommending the award of a pension to her mother, Mary Wade: "Jennie Wade, a daughter of the petitioner, twenty years of age, was killed by a rebel bullet at Gettysburg…within Union lines, and while she was engaged in baking bread for the Union soldiers…Your committee recommend the passage of the accompanying bill." In overall fine condition.
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