Theodore Wilder

Very little biographical information about Theodore Wilder is easy to confirm from reliable online sources. What can be verified is that he is credited as the author of The history of Company C, Seventh Regiment, O.V.I., a work that has been preserved and circulated through public-domain and bookseller records.

That book focuses on Company C of the Seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and is remembered as a regimental history tied to the American Civil War. Because the available source material is so limited, it is safest to describe Wilder as a historical chronicler whose known legacy rests on documenting the experiences of Union soldiers rather than on a large, widely recorded literary career.

For readers interested in eyewitness-style military history, Wilder’s work stands out less for authorial fame than for the value of the record itself: a close, on-the-ground account preserved long after its original era.