. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . e South. Themarch through Georgia was pleasant, with sufficientexcitement in the fights with Wheelers cavalry to breakthe monotony. The Carolina campaign was less so, onaccount of the weather. When General Kilpatrick wassurprised at Monroes Cross-Roads, North Carolina,Lieutenant Wedemeyer was with one of the brigades thir-teen miles in the rear, stuck in the mud. After musteringout the cavalry on the close of the war, Lieutenant Wede-meyer joined his regiment at Sacketts Harbor, NewYork; there he was promoted captain, and
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . e South. Themarch through Georgia was pleasant, with sufficientexcitement in the fights with Wheelers cavalry to breakthe monotony. The Carolina campaign was less so, onaccount of the weather. When General Kilpatrick wassurprised at Monroes Cross-Roads, North Carolina,Lieutenant Wedemeyer was with one of the brigades thir-teen miles in the rear, stuck in the mud. After musteringout the cavalry on the close of the war, Lieutenant Wede-meyer joined his regiment at Sacketts Harbor, NewYork; there he was promoted captain, and proceed. .Iwith his company to Nashville, Tennessee, in January,1866. Then followed the years of reconstruction,wherein he participated in various capacities. The crisisof 1876-77 found him in New Orleans. Thereafter heserved in Kansas and Colorado; on recruiting service atColumbus, Ohio; in Texas and Utah, where, at FortDuchesne, on February 24, 1891, he was retired as amajor. He now resides at Los Angeles, California. 44§ OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND XAVY • regular). CAPTAIN CHARLES WHEATON. (retired). Captain Charles Wheaton was bom in Rhode IslandMay 31, 1S35. He entered the volunteer service early inthe war of the Rebellion as first lieutenant, Second Mas-sachusetts Infantry, May 25, 1861, from which he washi piii irably mustered out July 26, 1862, after having servedin the field in Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley, andengaged in the actions at Newtown, Bartonsville, Kerns-town Heights, and Winchester, Virginia, March to May,[862. He was appointed captain and commissary ofsubsistence of volunteers, July 17, 1862, and participatedin the battles of Cedar Mountain, Rappahannock Station,Smith Mountain, Antietam, and Chancellorsville. Hewas inspector of subsistence, Department of the South,from August, 1863, to February, 1864; then chief com-missary of subsistence in the field in Florida, in 1864, andwas engaged in the battle of Olustee and action of KingsRoad. I Ie was
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