Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-01-27

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senior In command. and was engaged
all day. Even after dark he remain.
cd on the advance line to get up In.
trenching tools and TO encourage the
construction Of breastworks. He was
equally active during the engagement
on the second. and the result was to
leave the Americans In possession OF
the Spanish position In front Of San
tiago. In his order regarding the
battle OF San Juan. General Shafter
said: ITO Major General Wheeler OF
the cavalry division. was given proba-
bly, the most difficult task. that u
crossing a stream under Are and de.
ploying under the enemy's rife pits.
There he Immediately charged and
carried In a most gallant manner,
driving the enemy from his strong
positions 20 the shelter Of stronger
works In the G a
On July -, with Generals Shafter
and Miles, he held a conference be-
tween the lines with General Toral.
and on the 18th was appointed senior
OF a commission to negotiate the
terms OF reorganization, the other
members being General LawtOn and
Lieutenant ]. d.. Miley, second artil-
lery, aide de camp. ne dictated terms
Of an immediate capitulation, In form
similar to those adopted on the 18th.
On August / a meeting OF the offi'
GERS at Santiago was called by Gener'
al Lawton for the purpose OF estab'
fishing the Society Of the Army OF
Santiago. Of which General Wheeler
was unanimously chosen chairman
and later he was elected vice-presi'
dent. with General Shafter permanent
president. After Santiago c~apitulated
General Wheeler, on August 8. sailed
with his command to MOntauk Point
l.. /. He a placed In command Of
the troops at Camp Wakoff. having
general supervision until the troops
were mustered out, and on October !
was placed In command Of the Fourth
army corps.
Soon after his return to Alabama he
was unanimously nominated for con
gress. and feceived the votes Of al
the political factions OF his district
this being his tenth election. He
published. In 1898, "The Santiago
Campaign"
General Wheeler was married al
Wheeler, Ala, In 1866. to Daniella
daughter OF Lucy W. v Early and
Richard Jones. Her father, a resi-
dnet OF Lawrence county, was a son
OF Harrison Jones Of Virginia, a rev
dictionary soldier, and her mother wa
a daughter Of Governor Peter Earl,
az Georgia. Mrs. Wheeler was also
descended from prominent settlers o.
Virginia; Ebenezer Adams, Richart
Cooke, Mathew Edloe and Nicholas
Smith, all Of whom came to this coun
try within twenty years Of the date
Of the first settlement In Virgins
Another noted ancestor was jeremiah
Early, who emigrated from Ireland
and settled in Virginia about the year
1920. Mrs. Wheeler,s grandfather
was Harrison Jones; who lost a leg
at the battle Of Guilford courthouse,
March 3 1881.
Mrs. Wheeler died May 10. 1896.
leaving two sons, Joseph and Thomas
H., and four daughters. Lucy Louise.
Annie Early, Julia Hull and Carrie
Peyton. Joseph. a graduate Of West
Point In 1895, is a lieutenant Of artil.
lery in the United States army. He
was brevetteh and promoted for gal
lantry at San Juan. Thomas H. en-
tered the naval academy at Annapo-
list In 1897, but left 1t to serve on the
cruiser Columbia. He later Joined his
father at Camp Wikoif. where he was
drowned while bathing. September IL.
1898. The second daughter, Annie
Early Wheeler. volunteered as a
nurse during the Spanish war, and did
noble work in the hospitals Of Cuba
and Montauk.