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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Madison Hamilton Skinner

(1840 - 1865)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 61st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 19 year old living on his parent's farm at Hamilton in Madison County, NY. He enlisted on 30 September 1861 in New York City for three years and mustered as a Corporal in Company G, 61st NY Infantry on 17 October.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at hospitals in Frederick, MD and Philadelphia, PA and was promoted to Sergeant on 1 November 1862. He was captured, date and place not given, and died while a prisoner of war on 5 January 1865 at Salisbury, NC.

References & notes

Service information from the State of New York.1 His wound at Antietam from a casualty list in an undated news clipping online from the NY State Military Museum. Hospital basics from Nelson.2 His memorial is on Findagrave; he may be buried at Salisbury National Cemetery, but is not listed among the known graves there.

Birth

07/19/1840; Farmersville, NY

Death

01/05/1865; Salisbury, NC

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1900, Ser. No. 26, p. 1058 [AotW citation 30943]

2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 389 [AotW citation 30944]

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