Joseph Wheeler

Joseph Wheeler (September 10, 1836 – January 25, 1906) is an American military commander and politician.

He has the rare distinction of serving as a general during war time for two opposing forces: first as a noted cavalry general in the Confederate States Army in the 1860s during the American Civil War, and later as a general in the United States Army during both the Spanish-American War and Philippine-American War near the turn-of-the-twentieth-century.

For much of the Civil War he serves as the senior cavalry general in the Army of Tennessee and fights in most of its battles in the Western Theater.

Between the Civil War and the Spanish-American War, Wheeler serves multiple terms as a United States Representative from the state of Alabama.

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