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The reports of the Commander of Cavalry Division in the Santiago campaign of the Spanish American War. This important Spanish-American War memoir contains information on casualties and also on the illness of the author, a major commander. The role of the Red Cross (including Red Cross hospital ships) is considered.At the time of original publication in 1898, Major-General Joseph Wheeler was Commanding Fourth Corps, United States Army. After a career in the Confederate Army, and then serving as a longtime congressman from Alabama in the post-Civil War years, he became a major general of volunteers in the war with Spain. In 1900 he was retired with the regular army rank of brigadier general. His Confederate career had earned him the sobriquet "Fightin' Joe."Wheeler, Joseph is the author of 'Santiago Campaign, 1898', published 2003 under ISBN 9781410210340 and ISBN 1410210340.
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