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Untitled[edit]

The text I just deleted was apparently lifted from http://www.civilwarhome.com/fightingwheeler.htm (those formatting problems are a dead giveaway). - Hephaestos 02:38 11 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Wheeler's highest rank[edit]

There is no evidence that Wheeler ever held the rank of Lieutenant General. For a discussion of this, see my page at http://www.alia.org.au/~kwebb/wheeler.htm

It's also wrong to say that he rose rapidly to his highest rank. For the time, such a rise was not unusual.

You are correct. Hal Jespersen 01:43, 24 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

William M. Lowe and Wheeler's contested election[edit]

In writing a stub for Congressman William M. Lowe, I stumbled upon the story of the hotly contested congressional election of 1880, in which Joseph Wheeler's election was successfully challenged by Lowe his opponent. (See story in the Decatur Daily, December 10, 2000, "Gen. Joe Wheeler was entangled in recount.") It seems like this ought to be mentioned in Wheeler's article, but I don't see an easy way to work it in without sullying a perfectly good paragraph about "[healing] the breach between the North and the South," which I believe Wheeler did. Any thoughts? —LonelyPilgrim 16:55, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Las Guasimas[edit]

This article said that Wheeler led US troops "to victory at Las Guasimas," while the Las Guasimas article claims the battle was an "indecisive Spanish victory." To bring this article into line, I am removing reference to the outcome of Las Guasimas in the text of this article. --Cjs56 15:17, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nickname[edit]

"Fighting Joe" is Hooker. The proper nickname, as evidenced by [1] shows his nickname as "War Child, so I'm editing it. My username is Executor Tassadar, I'm just too busy to log in just now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.78.194.204 (talk) 14:38, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

CW expansion[edit]

Just finished adding to the Civil War section and the infobox. I found a cite for reaching Lt. General and called it "possibly" with a footnote explaining it, and I left his CSA rank maj. gen. in the infobox. I will add to his post-1865 life and activities when I have more time, but more info is needed for his battles throughout the CW. Kresock (talk) 00:55, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Entered West Point Military Academy "from"?[edit]

The current biography states: "and being appointed to the United States Military Academy at West Point from the state of New York, Wheeler always considered himself a Georgian and Southerner.[citation needed]". I placed "New York" (replacing "Georgia") in the article, because I found a roll call source that indicated NY for Joseph Wheeler, Jr. However, there is at least one obituary (Atlanta Journal, 26 Jan 1906) that says Wheeler entered the Academy "in 1855 from Alabama" (note that the Wikipedia biography says 1854, not 1855). Clearly there is confusion, and grim little to support the idea that Wheeler "always considered himself a Georgian". Could we get more research-oriented eyeballs on this? - Swiss Mister in NY (talk) 03:17, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Swiss Mister in NY: New York is correct. He was appointed by Congressman John Wheeler of New York City (no relation). According to this biography, Wheeler lived in the city with his sister in the 1850s and worked as a clerk at a mercantile firm. Billmckern (talk) 09:24, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]