exican war, 1846-47;
entered Confederate service as brigadier-general, 1861; promoted
major-general, 1861; was present at second battle of Bull Run, Antietam,
Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Knoxville and the Wilderness; United States
minister to Turkey, 1880-81; United States Commissioner of Pacific
Railroads, 1897; died January 2, 1904.

STUART, JAMES EWELL BROWN. Born in Patrick County, Virginia, February 6,
1833; graduated at West Point, 1854; entered Confederate service, 1861,
and became leading cavalry officer in Army of Northern Virginia; at Bull
Run, Peninsula, Manassas Junction, Antietam, Fredericksburg and
Chancellorsville; mortally wounded at battle of Yellow Tavern, and died
at Richmond, May 12, 1864.

WHEELER, JOSEPH. Born in Augusta, Georgia, September 10, 1836; graduated
at West Point, 1859; entered Confederate army as colonel; at Shiloh,
Green River, Perryville; brigadier-general, 1862; major-general, 1863;
at Murfreesboro, commanded cavalry at Chickamauga, fought Sherman almost
daily on the march to the sea; included in Johnston's surrender, April
26, 1865; member of Congress, from Alabama, 1881-99; appointed
major-general of volunteers, U.S.A., May 4, 1898; in command of cavalry
at Las Guasimas and before Santiago; in Philippine Islands, 1899-1900;
died at Brooklyn, New York, January 25, 1906.

MILES, NELSON APPLETON. Born at Westminster, Massachusetts, August 8,
1839; entered Union army as volunteer, 1861, attaining rank of
major-general of volunteers; enlisted in regular army at close of war,
rising grade by grade to major-general, and commander-in-chief,
1895-1903; conducted campaigns against Geronimo and Natchez, 1886; in
command of United States troops at Chicago strike, 1884;
lieutenant-general, June 6, 1900; retired, August 8, 1903.

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CHAPTER VIII

GREAT SAILORS

We have said that America has produced no soldier of commanding genius,
but her sailors outrank the world. Even Great Britain, mighty seafaring
nation as she has been, cannot, in the last hundred and fifty years,
show any brighter galaxy of stars. Just why it would be difficult to
say. Perhaps America inherited from England the traditions of that race
of heroes who made the age of Elizabeth, so memorable on the ocean, and
who started their country on her career as mistress of the
seas--Raleigh, Drake, Hawkins, Frobisher, Gilbert, and Howard of
Effingham.

Surely in direct descent fr