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Rivas (Nicaragua) (search for this): chapter 1.6
o his friend and share his fate with the gallant Crittenden. It was a generous sympathy with the oppressed everywhere, and not a mere restless spirit of adventure, which next led Colonel Wheat to join Carravajal in his effort to put down the church party in Mexico, and give that beautiful land our free institutions instead of the effete misrule of a licentious priesthood. And again, when Walker, who had been his classmate at college, was in imminent peril of his life, after his defeat at Rivas, faithful to his friend in adversity, he hastened to his relief. It was at Nicaragua that he met with the most wonderful of his numerous escapes from death. By the explosion of the boiler of a steamboat, he was blown from the hurricane deck into the river, but so entirely without injury that he swam to the shore with ease, taking a wounded man with him. When Alvarez pronounced against Santa Anna and the church party in Mexico, Colonel Wheat accepted a command in the patriot army. As ge
Nicaragua (Nicaragua) (search for this): chapter 1.6
mpathy with the oppressed everywhere, and not a mere restless spirit of adventure, which next led Colonel Wheat to join Carravajal in his effort to put down the church party in Mexico, and give that beautiful land our free institutions instead of the effete misrule of a licentious priesthood. And again, when Walker, who had been his classmate at college, was in imminent peril of his life, after his defeat at Rivas, faithful to his friend in adversity, he hastened to his relief. It was at Nicaragua that he met with the most wonderful of his numerous escapes from death. By the explosion of the boiler of a steamboat, he was blown from the hurricane deck into the river, but so entirely without injury that he swam to the shore with ease, taking a wounded man with him. When Alvarez pronounced against Santa Anna and the church party in Mexico, Colonel Wheat accepted a command in the patriot army. As general of the artillery brigade, when Alvarez became President, he received permanent
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.6
Memoir of Gen. C. R. Wheat, commander of the Louisiana Tiger Battalion By his brother Leo Wheat. Bury Me on the Field, Boys! Chatham Roberdeau Wheat was born in Alexandria, Va., on the 9th of April, 1826; his father being an Episcopal clergyman, and of an old Maryland family; his mother a granddaughter of Gen. Roberdeau, a Huguenot, and the first general of the Pennsylvania troops in the Revolutionary war; who built a fort at his own expense, and advanced the outfit for our first Commhim, of course, only to the rank of Major—a secondary consideration with one who thought more of the cause than of himself), he arrived at the front in time to take that conspicuous part in the first battle of Manassas which made ever after the Louisiana Tigers a terror to the enemy. Major Wheat had called the first company raised the Old Dominion Guard. But another company named The Tigers, and having the picture of a lamb with the legend as gentle as for its absurd device (lucus a non lucen
Key (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.6
in their undertaking. The place of landing on the island of Cuba, as it turned out, was ill-chosen; and without concert or co-operation with the Cubans, the invaders were unable to hold it. In the night attack upon Cardenas, Colonel Wheat was severely wounded, and when they had returned to the steamer they narrowly escaped capture by the Spanish warship Pizarro. The Fillibusters, as because of their failure they were now first called, pursued by the Pizarro, found refuge in the harbor of Key West. Colonel Wheat did not accompany Lopez in his second expedition, having been providentially prevented, very much to his chagrin at the time; though, as the event showed, most mercifully for himself; for his strong attachment to Lopez would have made him cling to his friend and share his fate with the gallant Crittenden. It was a generous sympathy with the oppressed everywhere, and not a mere restless spirit of adventure, which next led Colonel Wheat to join Carravajal in his effort
Montgomery (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.6
It was, therefore, a most painful sacrifice to sever those ties which had been made more sacred by much service and suffering in their behalf. But he felt the call of a still higher and holier duty, and he obeyed; it was to stand in the lot, and to share the fortunes of his own people and kindred and family. In the spirit which animated that purest of patriots, R. E. Lee, and from a like stern sense of duty, he gave his hand with his heart in it to the South. Stopping but a day at Montgomery, Ala., then the seat of the Confederate government, to learn the situation of affairs and the probable opening of the campaign, he hurried on to New Orleans, where he hoped to raise a regiment of volunteers for immediate service. Before his arrival the Governor of the State, by authority of the Convention which passed the Ordinance of Secession, had put in commission all the officers of the large force already raised. But at the call for volunteers to go to Virginia, where it was certain th
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.6
Santa Anna's body-guard. Returning to Mexico, Captain Wheat was detained at Jalappa till the close of the war. He used to regret that the government of the United States did not keep permanent possession of what he pronounced the finest country in the world; insisting that the present occupants were as incompetent to develop itexpedition, especial care was taken not to compromise the neutrality of our own government. The place of rendezvous was in mid-ocean, beyond the limits of the United States. There the emigrants, as they called themselves, were first formally made acquainted with their destination and its ulterior objects. The task was devolved proud portion of our own dear native land, The land of the free and the home of the brave. You are aware, fellow-soldiers, that we have come from the United States without arms, without organization, without previous concert to commit any act which may compromise the peace and dignity of our own government. Nor do we int
Banks (search for this): chapter 1.6
ned to his battalion. He was not fully recovered, and President Davis advised him to go hone with his father (they had called together to pay their respects), and keep quiet until he was entirely well. The Major quickly replied, I shall keep quiet, Mr. President, as long as yourself and the army do, but no longer. Very soon afterwards he returned to his command, and was with Jackson in all that brilliant campaign which resulted in the discomfiture, successively, of Fremont, Shields, and Banks. He was always among the foremost in the fight, taking batteries, and driving the enemy from his strongest position. The newspapers of the day seldom give an account of a battle in which his name and daring are not conspicuously mentioned. After all his wonderful escapes, our patriot hero and martyr fell in the bloody battle of Gaines' Mill, near Cold Harbor, on the 27th of June, 1862. It was one of those desperate seven days fighting around Richmond, when McClellan was driven back an
Chatham Roberdeau Wheat (search for this): chapter 1.6
oveliest landscape the eye ever beheld. Captain Wheat was several times honorably named in GenerAnna's body-guard. Returning to Mexico, Captain Wheat was detained at Jalappa till the close of he curse of the country. After the war, Captain Wheat settled in New Orleans and resumed the stuans determined to abandon the expedition. Colonel Wheat's eloquence was again called into requisitis hacienda, at his earnest solicitation, General Wheat went with him. The old hero would fain havd with the name and exploits of Garibaldi, General Wheat determined to gratify a long-cherished wis. They stopped a few days in Paris, and General Wheat had a most informal, but also a most agreehe Louisiana Tigers a terror to the enemy. Major Wheat had called the first company raised the Old he will need them in prison, poor fellow. Major Wheat's mother, who had flown to him as soon as ss friends, a Confederate officer, said to him, Wheat, I would give a thousand dollars to stand in y[22 more...]
Kingsley (search for this): chapter 1.6
moted, at last! His friends think of him as having had an especial honor put upon him. He is gone up from a remote province to the Capital of the Empire. The faithful soldier was summoned from his obscure post to become a member of the family of the Commander-in-Chief! We seem to hear a voice from heaven saying, Well done, good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. Shot and shell, as Kingsley strikingly remarks, cannot take away human life; they can but kill the body. All that we loved and valued most still lives, more truly lives, where we aspire to join him, high in salvation and the climes of bliss. That Major Wheat was not promoted by the Confederate government, that the general expectation of the army and of the country was not realized in this respect, his friends might not unnaturally regret. If he felt the least resentment himself, he never showed it. It certainly d
G. T. Beauregard (search for this): chapter 1.6
er after the Louisiana Tigers a terror to the enemy. Major Wheat had called the first company raised the Old Dominion Guard. But another company named The Tigers, and having the picture of a lamb with the legend as gentle as for its absurd device (lucus a non lucendo ),exhibited such reckless daring and terrible havoc in their hand-to-hand struggle with the head of the attacking column, that the name of Tigers, as often as Wheat's Battalion, was thereafter its popular designation. General Beauregard, in his official report, mentioned Major Wheat in the most flattering terms, as having won for himself and his command the proud boast of belonging to that heroic band who saved the first hour at the battle of Manassas. Major Wheat's being in the position to bear the brunt of the enemy's first onset (unexpected at that point, which was the extreme left), in heavy column, was one of the several providences which saved the day. He was here desperately wounded. The surgeon warned him
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