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Joseph Wheeler

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This bust of General Joseph Wheeler was presented to the Smithsonian Institution in 1921 by a committee that included Joseph H. Choate, Henry Clews, and Theodore Roosevelt. Joseph Wheeler was a Confederate general in the Civil War. He graduated from West Point in 1859, but resigned from the United States Army two years later to fight for the Confederacy. During the war, he was noted for his tireless energy and perseverance despite being wounded three times and having sixteen horses shot from beneath him.
Type:
Physical Object
Format:
Bronze
Rights:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Henry Clews and Committee of Subscribers
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Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

  1. American Civil War (1861 1865)
  2. Bust
  3. Civil War
  4. Civil War, 1861 1865
  5. General
  6. History
  7. Men
  8. Military
  9. Nude
  10. Nudity
  11. O'donovan, William Rudolf
  12. Occupation
  13. Occupations
  14. Portrait Male
  15. Portraits
  16. United States
  17. Wheeler, Joseph

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