Marcus F. Wright's Civil War Bios - Major-General Joseph G. Wheeler

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                                  WHEELER
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   WHEELER, MAJOR-GENERAL JOSEPH G., was one of the most prominent
   cavalry leaders in the Confederacy. He had been graduated from West
   Point only two years when the war broke out, but soon was made a
   brigadier-general. He participated in the battle of Shiloh and
   succeeding engagements, and during the next year operated very
   successfully with an almost independent cavalry command in the west,
   where he harassed Rosecrans, and later became one of the most
   persistant and annoying of the enemies in the path of Sherman's "March
   to the Sea". After the close of the war General Wheeler retired to his
   plantation, but was soon elected to Congress, where he sat for several
   terms.