Tuhia he tohutoro mō tēnei wāhanga - I whānau a Wessells ki Litchfield, Connecticut, i te 20 o Hui-tanguru, 1809. Whai muri i tana tohu i West Point i te tau 1833 i uru ia ki te Pakanga Tuarua o Seminole, i te tuatahi hei tuarua tuarua o nga hoia hiko, ka rite ki te rangatira tuatahi, i whakatairangahia i te Hurae 7, 1838. I te pakanga a Gen. Scott i Mexico i whakatairangahia ia hei rangatira, a, i whakawhiwhia ki te tohu o te rangatira mo te toa i Contreras me Churubusco
He aha? I roto i te whakataetae o mua, i whara a Kapene Wessells, i mau ki te haki o te regiment i te matenga o te kaitiaki tae, a, i whakanohoia ia ki te upoko o ana tangata. I tana hokinga mai i te pakanga i pootihia e te kawanatanga o Connecticut he hoari whakapaipai ki a ia, i whakawhiwhia ki a ia me nga huihuinga hoia. I noho a Kapene Wessells ki te takutai o te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa i te tau 1849-54, a, i roto ia i te haerenga a Sioux o te tau 1855, i muri mai ka mahi ia ki te raki-raki tae noa ki te Pakanga Taiao.