The USCC is excited to announce the relocation of its Civil War museum to the historic Jennie Wade Birthplace! We will be base all aspects of our organization from this landmark location.
Located central to the Gettysburg, we will receive instant visibility as every tour group and bus always points out that this home was the birthplace of Jennie Wade, the only civilian killed in the battle of Gettysburg.
We will be moving in and setting up operations immediatly, and plan to open our museum to the public by April.
Praise the Lord for the opportunity to house this ministry in a location central to the Gettysburg experience!
ABOUT THE JENNIE WADE BIRTHPLACE
The following can be found on the historical marker in front of the home.
In this modest weatherboard house, constructed ca. 1820, Mary Virginia "Jennie" Wade was born on May 21st, 1843. Wade, the second of six children of James and Mary Filby Wade, spent her childhood here, attending local schools and helping with her father's tailor shop. In 1854, the family moved to a new house on Breckenridge Street.
During the Battle, "Jennie" and her mother were visiting the home of sister Georgia Wade McClennan (now 548 Baltimore Street). There, on the morning of July 3, 1863, while working in the kitchen, Jennie was killed by an unknown Confederate sharpshooter, becoming Gettysburg's only civilian fatality of the fighting.
In the early 1920's, John White Johnston, a Rochester, New York businessman who had become fascinated with the Wade story, purchased this house and the Breckenridge Street house. On May 21, 1922, he dedicated a bronze plaque here in a ceremony attended by Georgia Wade McClellan.
USCC moves into the Jennie Wade Birthplace house!