Joseph Wheeler
Confederate Army general (1836-1906) · United States · On the map · Died at 69
Joseph "Fighting Joe" Wheeler was an American military officer and politician. He was a cavalry general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, and then a general in the United States Army during both the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars near the turn of the twentieth century.
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Wheeler at West Point
Joseph Wheeler during the Civil War
Wheeler's former residence in Washington, D.C.
Staff of the 1st US Volunteer Regiment, the "Rough Riders" in Tampa - Lt. Col. Roosevelt is on the right, Leonard Wood is next to him and bearded former Civil War Confederate general Joseph Wheeler is standing in front. Maj. George Dunn is on the far left and Major Alexander Oswald Brodie is next to him.
Wheeler in later life
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For much of the Civil War, he was the senior cavalry general in the Army of Tennessee and fought in most of its battles in the Western Theater.