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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)

Contents 1 Wheeler's highest rank 2 William M. Lowe and Wheeler's contested election 3 Las Guasimas 4 Nickname

[edit] Wheeler's highest rank

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)

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

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)

[edit] Las Guasimas

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)

[edit] Nickname

"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)