Wesley R. Felkel

He mustered as Private, Company K, 5th Florida Infantry on 26 February 1862.

He was "left sick" in Maryland on the 15th and captured on 16 September 1862.

He was exchanged on 26 September 1862 and returned to his Company. He was captured again, in action at Spotsylvania Courthouse, VA on 12 May 1864 and held at Camp No. 3 in Elmira, NY. He died of disease, probably at the regional Army hospital there, on 2 June 1865.

Basic information from State of Florida1, which lists him as killed in action at Sharpsburg. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source of additional details from his service record.

1837 in SC

06/02/1865; Elmira, NY; burial in Woodlawn National Cemetery, Elmira, NY