Charles Wheelock

                   Obituary
            BREVET BRIG.-GEN. WHEELOCK.
 Referring to the late Brevet Brig.-Gen. WHEEL-
OCK, who died at Washington a few days ago, the
Albany Evening Journal says: "At the outbreak of
the war, he was engaged in a large and prosperous
business. This he abandoned after the fall of Sum-
ter, and immediately devoted himself to raising men
for the army, pledging himself to provide for their
families. In a conversation with the writer of this,
in the Summer of 1861, he said: "I am worth, I
think, in the neighborhood of $10,000. Half of this
I have already given or pledged; and if my country
wants the other half, it can have it and myself in
the bargain." Becoming impatient with the slow
progress of the war, he soon after commenced rais-
ing a regiment on his own hook, fed and housed
several hundred men at his personal expense for
many months, and after a series of embarassments
and disappointments that would have disheartened
almost any other man, completed its organization
and marched it to the field. Entirely without mili-
tary experience, and with but a very limited general
education, he became one of the best volunteer offi-
cers in the service, and so signally distinguished him-
self that he was breveted Brigadier-General for
bravery and good soldiership. He had seen much
service, was engaged in many of the bloodiest bat-
tles in Virginia, was taken prisoner, if we mistake
not, at the second battle of Bull Run, and tasted for
many months the sweets of prison life at Richmond,
but was subsequently exchanged, when he rejoined
his old regiment and did more gallant service in be-
half of the old flag. He had the true heroic mettle,
and would, had he lived, still further made his mark
as a soldier.