Jack Skelly
Johnston Hastings Skelly Jr. | |
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| Nickname(s) | Jack |
| Born | August 4, 1841 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania |
| Died | July 12, 1863 (aged 21) Winchester, Virginia |
| Buried | Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania |
| Allegiance | United States of America |
| Service/ | Union Army |
| Years of service | 1861-1863 |
| Rank | Corporal |
| Unit | 87th Pennsylvania Infantry |
Johnston Hastings "Jack" Skelly Jr. (1841–1863) was a Union soldier — a corporal in the 87th Pennsylvania Infantry — who died as a result of wounds sustained at the Second Battle of Winchester. He was the friend, and possibly fiancé, of the only civilian to die in the Battle of Gettysburg, Ginnie Wade.[1] He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, near Wade's grave.
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Notes
- ^ Petruzzi, pp. 220–21, 223. Skelly and Wade were childhood friends and some historians have speculated that they were engaged to be married. Only one letter between the two survived the war, and it had no romantic content.
References
- Bellamy, Jay. "Brother vs. Brother, Friend against Friend: A Story of Family, Friendship, Love, and War" (PDF). Prologue (Spring, 2013): 20.
- Petruzzi, J. David, and Steven Stanley, The Complete Gettysburg Guide, Savas Beatie, 2009, ISBN 978-1-932714-63-0.
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