The son of Elias & Eliza (Penigar or Phenegar) Skelton, he is not found in the 1860 census but is in the 1863-65 draft registration as a wagon maker residing in Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 6" tall and had brown hair and hazel eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-two in Philadelphia February 12, 1862, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. G, 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry (113th Pennsylvania). On September 18, 1862, he was admitted to Finley U.S. Hospital in Washington DC where he discharged the service by surgeon's certificate to date October 24, 1862, for "hypertrophy of heart and dilatation of valves." His compiled military service records also report he discharged on February 24, 1863, at Baltimore, Maryland, but he listed the former date in the 1890 Veterans Schedule. The 1863-65 draft registration erroneously places him with the 2nd Pennsylvania Cavalry (59th Pennsylvania), and his obituary in the Lancaster Examiner makes a huge whopper by placing him with the very non-existent "Four Hundred and Twelfth Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry." (Pennsylvania only had twenty-two federally mustered cavalry regiments.)
He married Elizabeth A. Daughtery December 28, 1865. He died at his home from "angina pectoris" with "digestive troubles" a contributing factor. He had been a member of Neff Post No. 406, G.A.R., serving at least one term as the organization's quartermaster.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-two in Philadelphia February 12, 1862, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. G, 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry (113th Pennsylvania). On September 18, 1862, he was admitted to Finley U.S. Hospital in Washington DC where he discharged the service by surgeon's certificate to date October 24, 1862, for "hypertrophy of heart and dilatation of valves." His compiled military service records also report he discharged on February 24, 1863, at Baltimore, Maryland, but he listed the former date in the 1890 Veterans Schedule. The 1863-65 draft registration erroneously places him with the 2nd Pennsylvania Cavalry (59th Pennsylvania), and his obituary in the Lancaster Examiner makes a huge whopper by placing him with the very non-existent "Four Hundred and Twelfth Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry." (Pennsylvania only had twenty-two federally mustered cavalry regiments.)
He married Elizabeth A. Daughtery December 28, 1865. He died at his home from "angina pectoris" with "digestive troubles" a contributing factor. He had been a member of Neff Post No. 406, G.A.R., serving at least one term as the organization's quartermaster.
The son of Elias & Eliza (Penigar or Phenegar) Skelton, he is not found in the 1860 census but is in the 1863-65 draft registration as a wagon maker residing in Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 6" tall and had brown hair and hazel eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-two in Philadelphia February 12, 1862, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. G, 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry (113th Pennsylvania). On September 18, 1862, he was admitted to Finley U.S. Hospital in Washington DC where he discharged the service by surgeon's certificate to date October 24, 1862, for "hypertrophy of heart and dilatation of valves." His compiled military service records also report he discharged on February 24, 1863, at Baltimore, Maryland, but he listed the former date in the 1890 Veterans Schedule. The 1863-65 draft registration erroneously places him with the 2nd Pennsylvania Cavalry (59th Pennsylvania), and his obituary in the Lancaster Examiner makes a huge whopper by placing him with the very non-existent "Four Hundred and Twelfth Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry." (Pennsylvania only had twenty-two federally mustered cavalry regiments.)
He married Elizabeth A. Daughtery December 28, 1865. He died at his home from "angina pectoris" with "digestive troubles" a contributing factor. He had been a member of Neff Post No. 406, G.A.R., serving at least one term as the organization's quartermaster.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-two in Philadelphia February 12, 1862, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. G, 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry (113th Pennsylvania). On September 18, 1862, he was admitted to Finley U.S. Hospital in Washington DC where he discharged the service by surgeon's certificate to date October 24, 1862, for "hypertrophy of heart and dilatation of valves." His compiled military service records also report he discharged on February 24, 1863, at Baltimore, Maryland, but he listed the former date in the 1890 Veterans Schedule. The 1863-65 draft registration erroneously places him with the 2nd Pennsylvania Cavalry (59th Pennsylvania), and his obituary in the Lancaster Examiner makes a huge whopper by placing him with the very non-existent "Four Hundred and Twelfth Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry." (Pennsylvania only had twenty-two federally mustered cavalry regiments.)
He married Elizabeth A. Daughtery December 28, 1865. He died at his home from "angina pectoris" with "digestive troubles" a contributing factor. He had been a member of Neff Post No. 406, G.A.R., serving at least one term as the organization's quartermaster.
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