Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-26

1884 was returned to the Forty-ninth Con-
gress. He was steadily reelected, and was
serving when the war with Spain broke out
Several times before that when there was
an indication of conflict with another ma
ton, he had promptly offered his services
to the national government, even at a time
when the law prohibited his being commits
stoned, which would have compelled him to
serve as a private.
On May 2, 1898, he was appointed major
general of volunteers, having offered his
services in April and was placed in com
mand of the Cuban cavalry division
on June "A he engaged in the skirrn-
1sh at Guasimas, which he had plan
dismounted cavalry routed 1000 Span
iards, under the command of Lieut. Col.
Lainares, and opened the road to Santiago.
In the first engagement at San Juan, July
1, he was senior in command, and was
gagged all day. He was equally active in
the engagement on the second, and as a
result the Americans were left in possession
of the Spanish positions before Santiago.
On July Is Gen. Wheeler was appointed
senior member of a~commission to negotiate
the terms of capitulation of the Santiago
garrison and dictated the terms. In August
he was chosen chairman and vice president
of the Society of the Army of Santiago.
After Santiago capitulated Gen Wheeler
sailed for home, and was placed in COM
mand of Camp Wikoff, and on October
was placed in command OF the 4th Army
Corps.
His Literary Work.
Soon after his return to Alabama he was
unanimously renominated for Congress, and
received the votes of all the political fac
tons of his district it being his tenth cleo
ton. He published in 1899 The Santiago
Campaign" In February, 1900, he made an
inspection of the Island of Guam by direc-
ton of the President, and on July 10 was
appointed brigadier general in the regular
Amy. He commanded the Department of
the Lakes from June to September in this
year. General Wheeler was a member of
the Society of Colonial Wars Sons Of the
tjago, and the Naval and Military Order
of the Spanish American War. He was
also a polite writer.
Some Of his best-known books are "An
Account of the Kentucky Campaign, 1892
Cavalry Tactics. 1863" Military History
o. Alabama History of the Santiago
Campaign" History of Cuba" and His
tory of the Effects Upon Civilization of the
Wars of the Nineteenth Century" He was
a large contributor to many of the maya
zines, and was also the author Of mono
graphs upon the lives of Admiral Dewey,
VIM. Mckinley. "Stonewall" Jackson and
Theodore Roosevelt.
General Wheeler was married at Wheeler
Ala, in 1886, to Daniella, daughter of Rich
father, resident of Virginia, was revo-
lutionary soldier. and her mother was
daughter of Governor Peter Early of
Georgia. Mrs. Wheeler was also descended
prominent settlers Oh FlTBlUla-
Ebenezer Adams, Richard Cooke, Matthew
Edloe and Nicholas Smith, all of whom
came to this country within twenty years
of the date OF the first settlement in vir
ginia.
Another noted ancestor was Jeremiah
Early. who emfgrated from Ireland and set
tied in Virginia about the year 1870 Mrs.
Wheeler's grandfather was Harrison JONES'
who lost a leg at the battle of Guiford
Court House, March 10. 17S1. She died
May 10, 1896, leaving two sons. Joseph and
Thomas H., and four daughters, Lucy
Louise, Annie Early, Julia Hull and Carrie
Peyton. Joseph, graduate of West Point
In 1895, is lieutenant of artillery in the
United States army. He was brevetted and
promoted for gallantry at San Juan.
Thomas H. entered the Naval Academy at
Annapolis in 1857, but left 1t to serve on
the cruiser Columbia. He later Joined his
father at Camp Wikoff. where he was
drowned while bathing, September II, 1898
The second daughter. Annie Early Wheeler
volunteered as nurse during the war with
Spain and did noble work in the hospitals
Of Cuba and Montauk.