TENTH BATTALION.

(SECOND BATTALION HEAVY ARTILLERY. )

By WOODBURY WHEELER,* Caprarn Company D.

This sketch is written in pursuance of the following letter,
a copy of which I learn was sent to all the historians, about
100 in number, selected for these volumes:

Ratezieu, N. <1, 19 November, 1894.

Captain Woodbury Wheeler,
My Comrade:

At the last meeting of the Confederate Veterans’ Associa-
tion, I was appointed a committee to secure one soldier from
each regiment and battalion to write a brief history of his
command with a view to publication by the State. I have
selected you for your command, and respectfully, but earn-
estly request that you acept the duty thus imposed on you at
the instance of your surviving comrades. The length and
tenor of the sketch is left to your judgment; but an average
of thirty pages for each regiment, will give us four volumes
of 750 pages each of very valuable matter which in a few
years would otherwise be lost to the world. You are very
busy, and that is one reason you are selected. Only busy
men have the energy and the talent to do work. You have
doubtless forgotten much, but you can get access to the Official
Records Union and Confederate Armies, published by the
United States Government, and Moore’s Roster, printed by

TENTH BATTALION. our State. You can also refresh your memory by correspond-
: oe ee ence with those of your command who are fortunately still
living. Your record as a soldier satisfies me you will not de-

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*The author of this sketch was a son of the late Jno. H. Wheeler, author
of a history of North Carolina. His MSS. of Reminiscencies of Eminent
North Carolinians were printed by this son after the death of the author.
Born in Lincoln, N. C., the writer of this sketch, at the age of 19, en-
tered the service of North Carolina and served four years. He died like
several others, who are authors of sketches herein, pending the delay of
the Legislature to authorize the publication of these volumes.—Ep