WHEELER, JOSEPH. Born in Augusta, Georgia, September 10, 1836; graduated
at West Point, 1859; entered Confederate army as colonel; at Shiloh,
Green River, Perryville; brigadier-general, 1862; major-general, 1863;
at Murfreesboro, commanded cavalry at Chickamauga, fought Sherman almost
daily on the march to the sea; included in Johnston's surrender, April
26, 1865; member of Congress, from Alabama, 1881-99; appointed
major-general of volunteers, U.S.A., May 4, 1898; in command of cavalry
at Las Guasimas and before Santiago; in Philippine Islands, 1899-1900;
died at Brooklyn, New York, January 25, 1906.
MILES, NELSON APPLETON. Born at Westminster, Massachusetts, August 8,
1839; entered Union army as volunteer, 1861, attaining rank of
major-general of volunteers; enlisted in regular army at close of war,
rising grade by grade to major-general, and commander-in-chief,
1895-1903; conducted campaigns against Geronimo and Natchez, 1886; in
command of United States troops at Chicago strike, 1884;
lieutenant-general, June 6, 1900; retired, August 8, 1903.
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CHAPTER VIII
GREAT SAILORS
We have said that America has produced no soldier of commanding genius,
but her sailors outrank the world. Even Great Britain, mighty seafaring
nation as she has been, cannot, in the last hundred and fifty years,
show any brighter galaxy of stars.
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