held the rank of lieutenant-general in the Confederate States army when only twenty-eight years old. He avers that true success in life can only be gained by "constant effort, unerring integrity and intensity of purpose." He is the author of "Cavalry Tactics" (1863); "Account of Kentucky Campaign" (1862); "Braggs' Invasion of Kentucky" (Vol. Ill, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War); "Military History of Alabama and Accounts of Battles in Which Alabama Soldiers Engaged"; "History of Santiago Campaign" (1898); "History of Cuba 1496 to 1899"; "History of, and Effects upon Civilization of, Wars of the Nineteenth Century"; "Monograph of the Lives of Admiral Dewey, William McKinley, Stonewall Jackson, and Theodore Roosevelt — the Typical American" and numerous contributions to the newspapers and magazines.
General Wheeler died at Brooklyn, New York, January 25, 1906. He was buried in the National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, near Washington, District of Columbia.
