Wheatley, from Memphis, TN, enlisted as a private in Co. E of the 13th VA Infantry on June 20, 1861. The company was disbanded and he was discharged in November 1861. On March 25, 1862 he was in Memphis and enlisted as a sergeant in the 17th Battalion TN Cavalry. Late in the war, he provided a substitute and traveled to Louisiana to attend to plantation business, where he rejoined the army as a private in Co. A of the 3rd LA Infantry on an unknown date. He was paroled in Shreveport, LA on April 15, 1865.
He returned to Memphis after the war where he was involved in real estate.He died May 11, 1901 and is buried in Memphis, TN in Elmwood Cemetery.
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