Book Description: PRIVATELY PRINTED, 1932. VERY GOOD, PRINTED WRAPPERS, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Gettysburg Foundation(Vol 24, Issue 4): Daniel Skelly was a teenager working as a clerk in the Fahnestock Dry Goods Store, Baltimore Street. In his book "A Boy's Experience during the Battle of Gettysburg, " published in 1932, he tells that he assisted his mother and helped tend to wounded soldiers in homes and churches throughout the town.