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"It's Gonna Be Yours Someday, Son."

from Florida Memory

  • excellentzebu1050 said:
    Brilliant in one word
  • Cindy said:
    I can hear these same words echo down through past generations. Too bad they had to end when cities were born & land ownership was mostly gone.

Major Jos. Wheeler, Jr. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Wystan said:
    Son of the famous Confederate General in the American Civil War, who also was a General of U. S. troops in the Spanish American War of 1898. Old Joe also served several terms as a U. S. Congressman from Alabama, after the Civil War. From the Wikipedia biography of Joseph Wheeler, Sr.: Joseph Jr. The first son, Joe Jr. was born in 1872. He attended West Point and graduated in 1895. He joined the Army and was stationed at the Washington Barracks D.C.. After training at the Artillery School at Ft. Monroe in Virginia. Joe Jr. then was a Mathematics instructor at West Point before the Spanish-American War broke out. At the start of the War Joe Jr. was made an aide on his father's staff and sailed for Cuba on June 1898. The following year he was made a Major of the 34th infantry, US volunteers and left in September 1899 for the Philippines. He served in many different areas after this, finally retiring in February 1927. He died 6 August 1938.

Glenis Anderson welcomes her father Clark home from the war, Brisbane, February 1940

from State Library of Queensland

  • Aussie~mobs said:
    This was in a 2005 newspaper?
  • State Library of Queensland said:
    Hi Kaye. The photograph dates from 1940 but there was apparently some additional information taken from the Courier Mail from 2005. We are checking the source to clarify.