Hello and welcome back to Breakfast with Mom!
Today, we travel back to the blood-soaked fields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania — July, 1863. The Civil War is raging. Muskets crack. Cannons thunder. And amid the chaos, a 20-year-old woman kneads bread dough in her sister’s kitchen.
Her name is Jennie Wade, she will become the only direct civilian casualty of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Jennie Wade wasn’t a soldier. She wasn’t a spy. She wasn’t part of any grand political plot. She was a daughter, a sister, and a seamstress— born May 21, 1843, right in the town that would soon become infamous.
Sources:
https://www.gettysburgbattlefieldtours.com/jennie-wade-house/history/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Skelly
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7606339/jack-skelly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennie_Wade
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/mary-virginia-jennie-wade
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1064/jennie-wade
newspapers.com sources:
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1142375889/?match=1&terms=Mary%20Virginia%20Wade
https://www.newspapers.com/image/38246632/?match=1&terms=Mary%20Virginia%20Wade
https://www.newspapers.com/image/24457449/?match=1&terms=Mary%20Virginia%20Wade
https://www.newspapers.com/image/904937499/?match=1&terms=Mary%20Virginia%20Wade
All the things:
Music: “Electronic Rock (King Around Here)” by Alex Grohl https://pixabay.com/music/search/electronic%20rock%20king
Logo Artwork: Strawbeary Studios https://www.youtube.com/@StrawbearyStudios/featured
Episode was researched, written and edited by Shanoa
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