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Matilda "Tillie" Pierce was only 15 at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg. Yet her writings of those dramatic three days would make her famous. She would become known as the voice of the civilian side of this most important Civil War battle.
Born on March 11, 1848. Tillie witnessed much of the first day of battle from her home at the corner of Baltimore and BreckinridgeStreets. Later that same day at the urging of her parents,
Tillie left town with her neighbor, Hettie Schriver, for the Weikert farm on Taneytown Road. They could not have known that they had walked into the heart of the next two day of fighting within a few hundred yards of Little Round Top.
Tillie served as a volunteer nurse at the Weikert Farm and returned home to minister to five wounded men in her own home. In august, Tillie went to Camp Letterman where she volunteered as a nurse until November.
In September 1872 Tillie married attorney Horace Alleman and the couple moved to Selinsgrove, PA. When Selinsgrove was ravaged by a devastating fire, Tillie put her energy to best effect and raised funds for the restoration of the town. In 1888, Tillie published her account of the battle: At Gettysburg...or What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle. It was an immediate best-seller and seen seven subsequent printings.
Tillie succumbed to cancer in 1914 at the age of sixty-six.
"The horrors of war are fully known only to those who have seen and heard
them. It was my lot to see and hear only part, but it was sufficient."
- Matilda "Tillie" Pierce -
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Tillie Klimek was born in 1876.
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Tillie Starriett died on December 7, 1972, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Tillie K. Fowler died on 2005-03-02.
What actors and actresses appeared in The Fable of Hifaluting Tillie and Her Plain Parents - 1915?
The cast of The Fable of Hifaluting Tillie and Her Plain Parents - 1915 includes: Peggy Sweeney as Hifaluting Tillie
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Tillie Fowler died on March 2, 2005, in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
What did tillie pierce bring to the soldiers?
calzones
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Tillie Olsen's birth name is Tillie Lerner.
When did Tillie Klimek die?
Tillie Klimek died in 1936.
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Tillie Voss died in 1975.
When was Tillie Klimek born?
Tillie Klimek was born in 1876.
What is the Hebrew name for tillie?
There is no Hebrew name for Tillie. Tillie is a German nickname for Matilda, which means "strength in battle". But you can write Tillie using Hebrew letters, and it would look like this: טילי
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Tillie Olsen was born on January 14, 1912.
When was Tillie Olsen born?
Tillie Olsen was born on January 14, 1912.
When was Tillie Moreno born?
Tillie Moreno was born on 1953-05-22.
When was Tillie Ehrlich Lewis born?
Tillie Ehrlich Lewis was born in 1901.
When did Tillie Ehrlich Lewis die?
Tillie Ehrlich Lewis died in 1977.
When was Tillie Taylor born?
Tillie Taylor was born on 1922-11-11.
