Though he does not appear in the muster rolls of Co. D, 7th Virginia Cavalry, it appears he may have enlisted just days prior to being killed somewhere near Salem, near the New Market Gap, by Union forces entering Page County. Originally placed in the Nicholas Yager Vault, and then later buried in this cemetery.
*Photo posted by third party (not the monument administrator). Per the website (Civil War Photo Sleuth) associated with the photo: "Tintype of Private Charles C. Wheat, Company D, 7th Virginia Cavalry. He was killed April 19, 1862. He left this picture with his sister when he entered the Army, and her house was plundered by a band of Northern Soldiers, and among other things this picture was taken. Some years later a Confederate Soldier was passing this lady's house and stopped for dinner, he showed them relics and among them was this picture, which was recognized at once as being that of her brother. The Soldier said that he took it from the body of a dead Federal Soldier on the battlefield of Sharpsburg in 1862." Note, however, there is no indication on the photo that it is Wheat.
Though he does not appear in the muster rolls of Co. D, 7th Virginia Cavalry, it appears he may have enlisted just days prior to being killed somewhere near Salem, near the New Market Gap, by Union forces entering Page County. Originally placed in the Nicholas Yager Vault, and then later buried in this cemetery.
*Photo posted by third party (not the monument administrator). Per the website (Civil War Photo Sleuth) associated with the photo: "Tintype of Private Charles C. Wheat, Company D, 7th Virginia Cavalry. He was killed April 19, 1862. He left this picture with his sister when he entered the Army, and her house was plundered by a band of Northern Soldiers, and among other things this picture was taken. Some years later a Confederate Soldier was passing this lady's house and stopped for dinner, he showed them relics and among them was this picture, which was recognized at once as being that of her brother. The Soldier said that he took it from the body of a dead Federal Soldier on the battlefield of Sharpsburg in 1862." Note, however, there is no indication on the photo that it is Wheat.
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