I went here as a kid and to this day now at 27 years old I'm still creeped by when I went. I also put my finger in the bullet hole in the door and chair. I remember we went down to the basement and I felt like I was being watched and the energy was just really creepy down there. I wanna go as an adult now and bring my husband and daughter.
When I was there (just before Covid), standing in the kitchen I imagined the sounds of gun fire and cannons booming and the shouts of soldiers outside and the fear of the women and children in the next room and felt an overwhelming sadness wash over me to the point I had to go outside a few minutes.
Please help. Was her first name Virginia! II learned about this sad story on Ghost Adventures. Her big secret was that she was pregnant. I have not heard this mentioned. Why!!
Her full name was Mary Virginia Wade, no she was not pregnant, her sister Georgia had just given birth a few days before and Jennie, her mother, brother, etc. were there to help her.
Having never been and only seen dvd/shows about this place it to me seem a low shot in the door to have hit Jenny in the heart,the only thing i can think of is did it bounce of the door and she was bent over as i cannot see the right angle if it was fired from an up stair window across the way.Maybe the shot was fire from down low and that seems to make more sense of the alignment of the shot.Still it will re main a mystery and thank for the show.
The house is on part of Cemetery Hill (the high ground the Union officers thought so important). When I was there I looked through the two holes and you could see the Farnsworth House, it is said the shot could have come from the a business nextdoor (wood yard or blacksmith shop -can't remember at the moment) these places are downhill from the "Jennie Wade House". I checked because the hole in the outer door is lower than the hole in the inner door (she opened thinking it would protect her) and thought the travectory was odd til I saw that looking from the hole in the inner door to the outside how much higher the JW House is than the buildings down the road. The docent confirmed my observation when I mentioned it. No mystery. Even if the shot came from the Farnsworth House attic window, the JWH is high enough on the hill to still account the "odd" trajectory. Hope this helps folks understand.
Approx. 40-50 thousand total casualites for the battle, but sad as it is, it is no surprise that soldiers die in battle BUT the death of a young woman - an innocent bystander, non-combatant caught in the cross fire hoping to stay safe - is a tragic death. I suspect even the soidlers themselves would have appreciated this notion. Whe they heard the women screaming and crying some Union soldiers stopped fighting to help Jennie's family move her body to safety in the cellar which wasn't an easy task.
He was my tour guide!
I went here as a kid and to this day now at 27 years old I'm still creeped by when I went. I also put my finger in the bullet hole in the door and chair. I remember we went down to the basement and I felt like I was being watched and the energy was just really creepy down there. I wanna go as an adult now and bring my husband and daughter.
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When I was there (just before Covid), standing in the kitchen I imagined the sounds of gun fire and cannons booming and the shouts of soldiers outside and the fear of the women and children in the next room and felt an overwhelming sadness wash over me to the point I had to go outside a few minutes.
I was there. He sounds rather antagonistic toward only one civilian killed.
Please help. Was her first name Virginia! II learned about this sad story on Ghost Adventures. Her big secret was that she was pregnant. I have not heard this mentioned. Why!!
Her full name was Mary Virginia Wade, no she was not pregnant, her sister Georgia had just given birth a few days before and Jennie, her mother, brother, etc. were there to help her.
so spooky love to ghost hunt here
Having never been and only seen dvd/shows about this place it to me seem a low shot in the door to have hit Jenny in the heart,the only thing i can think of is did it bounce of the door and she was bent over as i cannot see the right angle if it was fired from an up stair window across the way.Maybe the shot was fire from down low and that seems to make more sense of the alignment of the shot.Still it will re main a mystery and thank for the show.
they say she was shot from up in the Farnsworth house attic. It's a block away.
The house is on part of Cemetery Hill (the high ground the Union officers thought so important). When I was there I looked through the two holes and you could see the Farnsworth House, it is said the shot could have come from the a business nextdoor (wood yard or blacksmith shop -can't remember at the moment) these places are downhill from the "Jennie Wade House". I checked because the hole in the outer door is lower than the hole in the inner door (she opened thinking it would protect her) and thought the travectory was odd til I saw that looking from the hole in the inner door to the outside how much higher the JW House is than the buildings down the road. The docent confirmed my observation when I mentioned it. No mystery. Even if the shot came from the Farnsworth House attic window, the JWH is high enough on the hill to still account the "odd" trajectory. Hope this helps folks understand.
@@wendeln92 Thank you so very much for this info and makes sense :)
When 600,000 soldiers die in a huge bloody civil war, why do people get maudlin about one young woman?
Because one death is a tragedy. A million is a statistic.
Approx. 40-50 thousand total casualites for the battle, but sad as it is, it is no surprise that soldiers die in battle BUT the death of a young woman - an innocent bystander, non-combatant caught in the cross fire hoping to stay safe - is a tragic death. I suspect even the soidlers themselves would have appreciated this notion. Whe they heard the women screaming and crying some Union soldiers stopped fighting to help Jennie's family move her body to safety in the cellar which wasn't an easy task.
I was there on my honeymoon.They told us, Jenny was.aking bread when she was shot
While watching this I can smell it. I've been there.