JENNIE WADE. 



Jennie ©Y^aile- 



Killed at Gettysburg, July, 1863. 



Have you heard the story of Jennie AVade 

 And Corporal Skelly, her Boy in Blue? 



Gettysburg's " Saragossa Maid " 



And his country's soldier brave and true? 



When the shells burst over spire and roof, 



And the balls hissed up and down the street, 

 And people, from danger to keep aloof, 



Hid in the cellar's safe retreat. 

 Brave Jennie the dangers heeded none, 



But in her cottage worked away 

 Baking the brown loaves one by one 



For the boys who fought on the hill that day. 

 When lo ! as she worked, a rebel ball 



Like an adder hissed through the open door, 

 And the stricken maiden tottered to fall 



Lifeless upon her kitchen floor. 

 Never to know her soldier lover, 



Corporal Skelly, light of her eye, 

 Joy of her young heart over and over. 



Wounded, had lain him down to die. 



Down where the Shenandoah Kiver, 



With current reddened, sought the sea, 

 Its bosom with war-sounds ever a-quiver. 



As the battle-clouds their bolts set free. 

 When the Minnie balls sang through the thickets- 



In place of the song-birds scared away- 

 After the bugle recalled the pickets. 



And ere the batteries got in play. 



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