The town of Wytheville is located in Wythe County in the Blue Ridge Highlands region of Virginia. It's beautiful landscape includes lush forests,

an abundance of water, fields, rolling hills and surrounding mountains.
you can see the location of where he signed up and where he was captured.
my great great grandpa JC Maxwell enlisted in the Confederate Army at Wytheville, Va (if I read the much copied documents of aunt minerva correctly!).