WHEELER, Joseph “Fightin' Joe”
Confederate
Born: September 10 1836, Augusta GA
Died: January 25 1906, Brooklyn NY
Pre-War Profession: Graduated West Point 1859, frontier
duty, resigned April 1861.
War Service: 1861 1st Lt. of artillery, September 1861 Col.
of 19th Alabama, Shiloh, chief of cavalry in Army of the Mississippi,
Kentucky campaign, October 1862 Brig. Gen., commanded the Cavalry
Divn at Murfreesboro, January 1863 Maj. Gen., commanded the cavalry
at Chickamauga, raided around Chattanooga, Knoxville campaign,
commanded Cavalry Corps in Atlanta campaign, opposed Sherman's
March to the Sea, Carolinas campaign, superseded by Hampton.
Post War: Cotton planter, US congressman, Maj. Gen.
of volunteers in Spanish-American war, commanded a brigade in the
Philippines, commissioned a Brig. Gen. in the Regular Army.