Addison D. and Minerva Skinner collection 1864 Skinner, Addison D. and Minerva collection

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Addison D. and Minerva Skinner collection 1864 Skinner, Addison D. and Minerva collection

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This collection is made up of letters that Minerva Fox Skinner received from and about her husband, Addison D. Skinner of the 8th Michigan Infantry Regiment, in 1864. Skinner's letters describe his travels and discuss his homesickness; the remaining letters pertain to his death and burial.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6391859

William L. Clements Library

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Skinner, Minerva

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Addison Dwight Skinner was born in New York around 1831. In the 1860s, he and his wife, Minerva Fox, lived in Parshallville, Michigan (now part of Hartland), where he was a carpenter. They had five children: Amelia, Annette, Ella, Howard, and Wells. Skinner joined the 8th Michigan Infantry Regiment in early 1864 and died of an illness at the Naval Academy Hospital in Annapolis, Maryland, on April 26 or 27, 1864. Wells B. Fox, Skinner's brother-in-law, was a surgeon in the same regim...

Hoyt, Helen M. Noye, 1839-1926.

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Helen or Nellie M. Noye was born around 1844 in Buffalo, New York. Her father John T. Noye was a wealthy manufacturer of mill machinery. Helen had two brothers Hadie and Richard K., and a sister Lizzie. In August of 1863 Helen journeyed to Annapolis, Maryland, to spend one year as a volunteer nurse in the U.S. General Hospital Division No. 1, also called the Naval Academy Hospital. The hospital had opened in 1857 and remained open through out the Civil War, even though the Naval Aca...

United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 8th (1861-1865)

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Skinner, A. D. (Addison Dwight), ca. 1830-1864

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Fox, Wells B.

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