Confederate Dispatch Bag
Object Details
- Wheeler, Woodbury
- Description
- Physical Description
- Brown leather with embossed gold lettering reading "Woodbury Wheeler, C. S. Army."
- Specific History
- Confederate dispatch bag belonging to Woodbury Wheeler. At age 19, Woodbury Wheeler entered the service of North Carolina and served four years with the Confederacy. Wheeler rose to the rank of Captain of the 10th Battalion of North Carolina Artillery. His battalion fought in the Battle of Bentonville on 19-21 March 1865. During the battle, the Confederacy mounted a tactical offense against the Union army. It would be their last. In the largest battle ever fought in North Carolina, the Confederacy made a valiant attempt to defeat the army of General William Sherman, but he was slowed only briefly. Captain Wheeler was taken prisoner at Bentonville and sent to Fort Sandusky in Ohio. He was later transferred to Governor’s Island New York. After the war he was paroled and returned to North Carolina.
- General History
- A dispatch bag was a brief case or document bag generally containing orders or other sensitive information.
- Credit Line
- Genevieve A. Wheeler
- associated date
- 1861 - 1862
- ID Number
- AF.35675(6)
- catalog number
- 35675(6)
- accession number
- 99695
- Object Name
- Case, Dispatch
- Other Terms
- Case, Dispatch; Equipment, Individual; CSA, Army
- Physical Description
- leather (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6 1/2 in x 9 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 16.51 cm x 24.765 cm x 3.81 cm
- associated place
- United States: North Carolina
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
- Military
- Exhibition
- Price of Freedom
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- related event
- Civil War
- Civil War and Reconstruction
- Record ID
- nmah_439656
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a2-5e6e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
