Captain William Wheeler's Civil War Uniform (pants, vest, coat, scarf, cap)

William Wheeler (1836-1864) was an artillery officer in the
13th New York Battery. A Yale-educated and
Brooklyn-based lawyer who was fluent in German
and French, Wheeler often quoted from Homer and
Dante in letters home. Some of his letters reached his
niece in Setauket, as he struggled with his troops at
Bulls Run, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. Wheeler
was killed by a sharpshooter’s bullet in Marietta,
Georgia, in the summer of 1864.