Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Wheeler” in chapter 7, page 373 of Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2:
...occupied the cities of Charleston and Augusta, with garrisons capable of making a respectable if not successful defence, but utterly unable to meet the veteran columns of Sherman in the open field.
Wheeler 's cavalry, now greatly reduced, was expected to resist or delay the national progress, and Wade Hampton had been 106
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