Joseph "Fighting Joe" Wheeler was an American military officer and politician. He was a cavalry general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, and then a general in the United States Army during both the Spanish-American and Philippine–American Wars near the turn of the twentieth century. For much of the Civil War, he was the senior cavalry general in the Army of Tennessee and fought in most of its battles in the Western Theater.
- Occupation
- politician, military personnel, army officer, writer
- Position held
- United States representative
- Citizenship
- United States, Confederate States of America
- Born
- September 10, 1836
