September 12, 1901, for $7.50 to Arthur Rossen drawn on the Mechanics National Bank of New York. Presented in a two-sided wooden frame below a portrait and outline biography.



Frame dimensions 16 x 13-1/2 in.

From the Collection of Phil Meilman, Arlington, Virginia

A West Point graduate, the young Joseph Wheeler became one of the Confederacy's most celebrated cavalry commanders. Over thirty years later, In a spirit of duty and sectional reconciliation, an aging Wheeler served in the Spanish-American War of 1898 as a major-general wearing the blue uniform of United States volunteers.