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Fighting Joe Goes To War
from the Hamptonburg Tribune, January 11, 1904:
Initial reports from the front indicate that Major General "Fighting Joe" Wheeler's First Corps has contacted the enemy army about ten miles north of Durango and, after heavy fighting, the Mexicans continued their southerly retreat.
from the memoirs of Jesse Tannehill:
January 13, 1904 - The Mexicans continue to run, and with us having to haul our army and all of our equipment through the mountains, I'm beginning to believe their strategy is to let their countryside whip us since their army, apparently, can not.
Met the General today. Fighting Joe is everything the stories make him out to be, and more. The old boy actually commanded in the War for Southern Independence! Did his time in Richmond as a congressman, and is now back in command. He commended my unit for bravery during the Battle of Durango, and his speech was fiery, patriotic, and very uplifting to the spirit.
Rumor has it that General Robert E. Lee Stuart, grandson of old J.E.B., has the Second Corps and has landed somewhere on the East coast - some say Vera Cruz (just like Scott did in the First Mexican War), others say Tampico. Either way, if it's true, it's a godsend.
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