Stamped brass disc that meas. approx. 1.00 inch in diameter with a drilled hole along edge. Obverse is has a spread-winged eagle at center with “WAR OF 1861” across the top and “UNITED STATES” along the bottom.

The reverse is stamped “A. Wheeler/Co. A/10th N.H.V./Manchester.” The disc exhibits dark tarnish, some verdigris, and a few nicks but it is quite legible and otherwise very good.

Alfred Wheeler was mustered as a Private in Co. “A”, 10th New Hampshire Volunteers, on August 29, 1862. This unit was assigned initially to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps, and would later see service with the 7th, 18th and 24th Army Corps. The regiment saw action at Fredericksburg, Siege of Suffolk, Swift Creek, Drewry’s Bluff, Bermuda Hundred, Cold Harbor, Petersburg and Chaffin’s Farm. Private Wheeler would contract malaria while on detached duty in Milldale, Mississippi, in July 1863. He was be transported to an army hospital in Cincinnati and then to Camp Denison, Ohio, where he spent “upwards of six months being treated for Chills and Fever and Disease of the Kidneys and Bladder.” Although Wheeler was mustered out with the rest of his unit in Richmond in June 1865, these diseases continued to plague him the remainder of his life and were the basis of the disability pay he later received.

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