Ginnie Wade
Mary Virginia "Ginnie" (or "Jennie") Wade (May 21, 1843 – July 3, 1863), a seamstress, was the only Gettysburg civilian killed directly during the Battle of Gettysburg.
The house where she was killed became a popular tourist attraction and museum called the "Jennie Wade House."
Read more about Ginnie Wade: Early Life, Casualty of War, Monument
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“We need the tonic of wildness,—to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)