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Federal (USA)

Private

Virgil I. Wheeler

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: New Hampshire

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 11th United States Infantry

Before Antietam

An 18 year old farmer, he enlisted for three years as a Private in Company B, 11th United States Infantry in Keene, NH on 3 September 1861. He was described as being 5 feet 4 inches tall with grey eyes, red hair and light complexion.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the groin in action at Boteler's Ford near Shepherdstown, VA on 20 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 22 September 1862 at camp near Sharpsburg, MD.

References & notes

His service from the Register.1 His wounding at Shepherdstown from Major Floyd-Jones' Report as V.S. Wheeler.

Birth

c. 1843; Nelson, New Hampshire

Death

09/22/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 142, pg. 888 [AotW citation 21476]

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