Served as Camp Commander from 1978 til 1980. He was born in Charleston, West Virginia, on December 22, 1919, and was the son of William Howard and Helen Elizabeth (Hubbard) Wyatt. His mother’s grand father, John Calvin Gillespie, served in Company “F” of the 50th Virginia Infantry. John Gillespie was captured at the battle of Spottsylvania on May 12th 1864, and sent to Point Lookout Prison. He escaped on April 1, 1865 and returned home at war’s end. Commander Wyatt was a graduate of Charleston High School, Charleston, West Virginia, and worked for the Owens-Illinois Glass Co. for forty-two years. At retirement he was serving as Industrial Relations Director at their Mold Manufacturing Plant in Alton, Illinois. During his years of active service to the SCV he was involved with many outstanding projects. His most notable achievement was the successful removal of the remains of Confederate Major-General Bushrod Johnson from a small country cemetery at Miles Station, Illinois, and having him placed by his wife’s side at the Old City Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1977 with the help of many friends, he had a monument erected to General Johnson on the Chickamauga Battlefield. In 1978 he received the Jefferson Davis Medal from the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Chicago, Illinois for these projects. Other projects included:
Mr. Wyatt is a strong supporter of the Boy Scouts of America, and enjoys visiting battlefields, graves and historic sites