The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-12
Gen. Joseph wheeler and the Army

"Gcn. Joseph Wheeler and the Army
of Tennessee"
BY John withcrspoon DuBose. The
Nsale Publishing Company. or Now
York. $500 not.
The inscription of this book says It 81
q memorial to General Joseph EgSle-
sion Johnson. c. 5. ~, to General
Joseph Wheeler. the chief of cavalry.
and TO the officers and members of
Wheeler's Corps. including four broth
ers of the author that enlisted IN that
corps-I.ieutcnant James Henry DuBosc
and private Eugene DuBose Killed in
battle; Private Francis Marion Du-
Bose. who died in a military hospital,
ana Private Nicholas Williams Du-
Bose survivor OF the War between tho
states.
- BACKGROUND" preceding the first
chapter presents union Of mullify-
ing States opposed to a confedera ;icn
OF seeding States quotes the views
and opinions OF George Mason. o!
Gunston, and contrasts Mr. Davis and
MI. Lincoln thus: MIR. Davis was a
welcome great man. With his advent
The people shouted with Joy. Mr.. Lin
colin was universally doubted in the
North and was accepted simply as an
experiment that must. under the con-
diltons. be given a trial"
In referring TO sedvice rendered the
Contederacy by its cavalry. the author
= OF the opinion that the mounted
arm OF the Confederat service re-
presented with historic emphasis the
peculiar military capacity of the
southern people" lie illustrates the
truth Of what he has to say 10y citing
iustances-Jhe ability Of General John
ston 10 come 10 the rescue OF Beaure-
gard and save him from impending
dcfcnt through the leadership OF Gene
raj stuart with a regiment or TWO
Of raw. half-armcd cavalry" The au-
at.
from Kentucky the next year
was safely covered by the 5000 caval-
rs OF General Whcele~'s command.
mat General Van Dorm some months
later burned the stores accumulated
az Holly springs by General Grant and
compelled Grant TO abandon his in
vaSion of the plantation region of
Mississippi ana Alabama and return 10
Memphis Tennessee. that General
Stuart utterly defeated Pleasanton's
cavalry at BeverlY's Ford after the
battle Of Charlottesville and enabled
Lee 10 cross the Potomac River undis-
turbed; that MorEan'S raid into OAio
arrested the march OF the Federal
forces into East Tennessee and gave
Bragg time 10 fight at Chickamauga:
that Forrest struck Smiths picked
force of cavalry at Okolona. Miss,
and with less than half its numbers
drove IL pell-men back to Memphis
the same year Hampton struck Sheri-
dan at Trcvilian Station Louisa county
and brought Sheridan's expedition
to join Hunter at Lynchburg.
Va. TO = close, so that Sheri-
dan reported to Grant II regret
my inability to carry out Your in
structions."
The author quotes from a letter
written to Halleck by Sherman, in
which The latter said: The young
hoods OF the South, sons of planters,
the lawyers about town. good bill
Hard players and sportsmen, men who
never did work and never will--war
suits them,and the rascals are brave.
fine riders and dangerous subjects in
every sense. They are the best
cavalry IN thc world.'
In SO far as General Wheeler career
is concerned Mr.. DuBosa outlines in
brief the incidents Of his birth, line
age and education which was finished
at West Point and destined him for
the United States Army; his .esigna-
ton wien Georgia withdrew from the
Union, his experiences in Pensacola
and Mobile and his baptism Of
tire on the field OF Shiloh
and the beginning of his ca
rccr in August OF 1862, when. with
500 mon much worn and jaded. he made
q successful raid into West Tennessee
in rear OF Halleck at Curinth.
other chapters deal with the Ken.
lucky and Murireesboro campaigns. the
Horse Marine expedition and Dover,
tile Streisht raid. the Shelbyvillc fight,
The evacuation of Tennessee. the Chick
umauga campaign, the SeQuntchie VAL
ley raid. the Knoxville and Dalton-At-
1auta campaign ana that Of Hood at
atlanta. coming before WhcNer's last
raid. and the destruction o; Hoods
army, soon to be followed by the down
fall of the Confc'icracY. y chapter is