Paranormal – Gettysburg Chronicles

What happens at the end of October: Halloween. The tradition is that souls of the departed wander the earth, and All Hallows’ Eve provided one last chance for the dead to gain vengeance on their enemies before moving onward. Around Gettysburg, the paranormal encounters happen throughout the year, but it occurs (I think) more often around this time of year. Either soldiers or persons searching for their enemy, seeking their family members, or wanting to be heard or seen can occur throughout town.

Window at General Meade’s Headquarters – Leister House –
What do you see?

Here are some places to visit on your spooky walks and travels around town:

Paranormal Sites:

Cashtown Inn: Confederate Civil War Hospital and Haunted Bed and Breakfast

Jennie Wade House – Where Jennie Wade was shot and killed.

Jennie Wade Birth-House – Where Jennie Wade was born.

National Soldiers Orphanage Homestead – Chilling stories about the history and the orphans.

Welty House – Chilling stories of a family in the basement with their neighbors across the street

Dobbin House – Oldest house in town, Underground Railroad stop, Civil War hospital, & Restaurant

Farnsworth / Sweeney House -Confederate Sniper nest, restaurant, and firepit outside

Shriver House & Museum – Historical house, museum, attic confederate sniper area, Civilian house

Tillie Pierce House Inn – Haunted Bed and Breakfast – Candles blown out and moved balloons around

Langdon Hill House – Haunted Bed and Breakfast – Artifacts inside the house found during renovations

Sachs Covered Bridge – Covered Bridge west of town used by Union, Confederate, and farmers

If you see have any pictures of your paranormal experiences, please share with me your findings and you’ll be forever seen on this page.

A rainy afternoon in late September in Gettysburg brought me to this historic duplex. It’s almost that time of year that occurs in town every October where the paranormal enthusiasts come to talk to past family members, friends, soldiers, and other unforeseen entities. This house though is quite confusing to a visitor to town, or for true historians. This house has been named the following since the Civil War:

Gettysburg’s Oldest Museum
Jennie Wade House and Museum
Jennie Wade Museum

Jennie Wade never owned the house. She was just the sister of Georgia who lived on the left side of the house. There was another family that lived on the right side of the house. Jennie was at the house during the battle of Gettysburg because of family matters.

Jennie’s sister, Georgia, established the McClellan two-story rented brick duplex after her marriage with John Louis “Lou” McClellan. They married on April 15, 1862, (same day as the Titanic sinking fifty years later), and lived here at the house through 1866. Her husband was serving with the 2nd regiment of the Pennsylvania infantry, but the regiment didn’t fight at Gettysburg.

On June 26, 1863, at approximately 2:30 p.m., Georgia delivered her first child named Louis Kenneth McClellan at the duplex at 548 Baltimore Street. An hour later, three Union soldiers quickly rode past the house to escape Confederate General Early’s cavalry from being captured. One of them passed away further south of the duplex along Rock Creek named George Washington Sandoe.

Courtesy of the The Fort Payne Journal Oct 19, 1927 – Find a Grave

Since Georgia and her newborn son couldn’t move, the Wade family moved to the duplex for the battle. Sadly though, on July 3rd, at around 8:30 a.m., Jennie Wade was shot as she was kneading bread in the kitchen. The bullet penetrated the outer and inner doors, went through her back, and ended up in the front of her corset. She was dead before she hit the floor. She was the only civilian that died during the battle of Gettysburg.

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Georgia Wade McClellan’s Duplex