He served in Company F 72nd Reg New York Volunteer Infantry. He was wounded at Malvern Hill,Virginia and at Bristoe Station,Virginia. At the Battle of Wilderness he was captured and held prisoner and later paroled.Gravestone stone wrongly reads 12th Reg New York Volunteers while data records read 72nd reg New York Volunteers.

The funeral services of Wesley Sutton, 94 years old, a Civil War veteran, were held Tuesday afternoon at his late home in Califon. The Rev. Frederick Helwig, pastor of the Lower Valley Presbyterian Church, officiated. Interment was made in the Lower Valley Union Cemetery. Mr. Sutton died Saturday, Oct. 6, 1934, after an illness of several weeks.

The eldest of a family of fourteen children, he was born in Califon on 29 Feb 1840. Mr. Sutton served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was wounded in the battle of Bull Run, when a shell fragment injured his elbow. He also took part in the engagement at Budd's Ferry, Yorktown, Fair Oaks, Oak Grove, Malvern Hill and Brandy Station. He was captured and served 11 1/2 months in the Conferderate prison at Andersonville.
At the close of the war he returned to Califon and engaged in the mason and building business until he retired about twelve years ago. Mr. Sutton married Miss Catherine Reed of Califon, who survives him. He leaves the following children; Mrs. Emma Daves of Scranton, Miss Carrie Sutton of Easton, Miss Etta Sutton, of New York, and Martin Sutton of Califon.
Three brothers, John and Morris Sutton of Califon, and George Sutton of Riegelsville; and three sisters, Mrs. Ella Pickell, of Somerville, Mrs. Isaac F. Fisher of Plainfield, and Mrs. Philip Farley of Califon, also survive.
There are now only two Civil War veterans left in Califon vicinity. They are Jacob Cramer, 94, of Cokesbury, and William Young, 88, of Califon.

Hunterdon Democrat Newspaper