[source: Francis B Heitman, Historical Register and dictionary of the United States Army]
[information about Wharton's death]
Wharton, Jesse B. Md. Md.
[Perhaps this is his birthplace and place of enlistment.]
2 lt 7 inf 30 June 1855; resd 31 Aug 1859; [died 1 Apr 1862.]
[The preceding square brackets and comment are in Heitman.]