. Book of the Royal blue . t brilliant rhap-sody, strikes everynow and then theminor key. Still many moreare there, that havenever reached thelight of day at all,but lie buried in thehearts of those longsince gone and for-gotten. .\mong the thou-sands and thousandsof slain during thethree days of thisgreat battle appearsthe name of but onewoman, and the storyof her sudden anduntimely death fur-nishes one of themost mournful inci-dents of the multi-tude of sad eventsconnected with that terrible slaughter ofhumanity. The story of the bright life and saddeath of Jennie Wade has been touchedupon f
. Book of the Royal blue . t brilliant rhap-sody, strikes everynow and then theminor key. Still many moreare there, that havenever reached thelight of day at all,but lie buried in thehearts of those longsince gone and for-gotten. .\mong the thou-sands and thousandsof slain during thethree days of thisgreat battle appearsthe name of but onewoman, and the storyof her sudden anduntimely death fur-nishes one of themost mournful inci-dents of the multi-tude of sad eventsconnected with that terrible slaughter ofhumanity. The story of the bright life and saddeath of Jennie Wade has been touchedupon from time to time in the pages ofhistory and fiction, but perhaps none ofthem have done justice to the beautifullife she lived, and the heroic, sacrificialdeath that fell to her lot on .July 3d, 1SG3. .Jennie Wade lived with her mother onBreckinridge Street, Gettysburg, and atthe time of the battle was twenty yearsold, and engaged to be married to CorporalSkelly of the Union army, who was subse-quently killed at ■:nn[K waIE Her life had been bright and happyand only saddened by the departure ofher soldier boy to the war, but hisreturn was eagerly looked for, and thensorrow and sadness would be no , how often we build our futureupon the shifting sands that give waybeneath us in a moment of time. Jennies sister,Mrs. (Jeorgie WadeMcClellan, was lyingvery sick in her lit-tle house on Balti-more Street, nearthe National Ceme-tery, and althoughthe houses in theimmediate vicinity ofthe one in which lived wereoccupied by Unionsharpshooters, w h ohad advanced fromthe line of battle onCemetery Hill, andwere keeping up acontinuous anddeadly conflict witha line of Confederatesharpshooters se-creted in the build-ings on the slope ofthe hill and the lowground on the south side of the town, yetboth Jennie and her mother determined totake every chance of danger, and so lefttheir own home and took up their abodein the little home on Baltimore Street, inorder
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