Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Wheeler” in entry 2407 of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
...rolina were encamped that night around Goldsboro.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, with the combined and concentrated forces of Beauregard, Hardee, Hood, the garrison from Augusta, Hoke, and the cavalry of Wheeler and Hampton, was at Smithfield, half-way between Goldsboro and Raleigh, with about 40,000 troops, mostly veterans.
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