Sylvanus A. and Rachel Wheat papers 1848-1880 Wheat, Sylvanus A. and Rachel papers

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Sylvanus A. and Rachel Wheat papers 1848-1880 Wheat, Sylvanus A. and Rachel papers

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The Sylvanus Wheat papers contain the incoming and outgoing correspondence of Wheat, a soldier in the 144th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment; the papers shed light on his Civil War service in 1862-1863, as well as on the activities of the Wheat family.

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William L. Clements Library

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Sylvanus and Rachel Wheat Sylvanus Wheat was born on April 7, 1823, in Franklin, New York, the son of Silas Wheat (1793-1888) and Eunice Dewey (1794-1857). He married Rachel Loveland (b. 1828) on Nov. 12, 1849, and worked as a farmer in Delaware County, New York. The Wheats' first child died a few weeks after its birth in 1852. They had four more children between 1853 and 1861, but all of them died in October 1861. In August of 1862, Wheat enlisted in the Union army as a...

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