General Joe Wheeler

Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Wed, 2017-06-21 22:29
Text: 
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek"
Character Key: 
General Joe Wheeler
Display Name: 
General Joe Wheeler
Sort Name: 
Wheeler, General Joe
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Upper Class
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Armed Forces
Specific Job: 
Army General
First Mentioned: 
Cuba in "My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek" (Location)
Date of Birth: 
Saturday, September 10, 1836
Origin: 
Georgia
Biography: 

A cavalry general in the Army of Tennessee during the Civil War who fought in most of the battles in the western theater. He later was a general in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War, an act, Bayard says, that "Father" - Colonel Sartoris - "would have called apostate" and which, according to an imagined anecdote, another Confederate general - Jubal Early - condemns Wheeler to hell (673).

Ontological Status: 
Historical/Real
Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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