Monday, May 28, 2012

Another good one from General Joe Wheeler



General Miles and staff visiting General Joe Wheeler and staff.

“In the [1898] war with Spain [Confederate General Joe] Wheeler fought in Cuba with a blue uniform on his back. When he first got this uniform, he advised his wife to hang it up, not on a chair, but in a closet out of sight: “I’m afraid I might wake up some morning and shoot at it.”
--(Son of Carolina, Augustus White Long, Duke University Press, 1939, pp. 3-4)

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