Thaddeus Wheatley

In 1860 he was a 22 year old farm overseer at Mountville in Troup County, GA. He enlisted as a Private in Company K, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 in Griffin, GA. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.

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

He was wounded again, in the arm at Chancellorsville, VA on 4 May 1863, and probably captured there. Just over 2 inches of the lower part of his humerus (upper arm bone) was surgically excised (removed) near the field the same day, and he was said to be "recovering rapidly." He was discharged for disability, date not given.

In 1870 he was a retail merchant at Jones' Mills in Meriwether County, GA, but by 1880 and to at least 1911 he was a farmer and contract US Mail carrier in Garland County, AR. By 1920 had retired and was living with his son Lucius and family in Caddo Township, Clark County, AR.

His service from Henderson,1 as T. Wheatley. No record is found for him among the Compiled Service Records for the regiment. Medical details from the MSHWR.2 Personal details from family genealogists, US House Documents and Official Register of the US (1880, 1894, 1908, 1911, etc), and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Jane Johnson (1849-1921) in November 1865 and they had 7 children.

His 1891 pension application is in the Arkansas State Archives [finding aid].

11/08/1837 in GA

03/16/1930; Hot Springs, AR; burial in Greenwood Cemetery, Hot Springs, AR