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392 command at Angeles, October 11 and 16; commanded in several minor engagements, October 10-20; commanded brigade in the advance on Mabalacat, November 8; in the capture of Bamban, November 11; in the advance upon Tarlac, November 12-13; commanded in the expedition to San Miguel de Camiling, and followed the retreating enemy November 22-26, and was in command of the expeditions to Sulipa, November 29; and to San Ignacia and Moriones, December 3-6, 1899. By direction of the president he made an inspection of the Island of Guam February 8-12, 1900. On June 16, 1900, he was appointed brigadier-general in the regular army and was placed in command of the Department of the Lakes with headquarters at Chicago, June 18, 1900. This appointment vacated his volunteer commission and on September 10, 1900, he was placed on the retired list of the regular army.

General Wheeler was married February 6, 1866, to Daniella, daughter of Richard and Lucy (Early) Jones, of Lawrence county, Alabama, and granddaughter of Harrison Jones, a Revolutionary soldier and of Peter Early, governor of Georgia, 1813-15. Mrs. Wheeler died May 19, 1896. Their son Joseph was graduated at West Point in 1895 and served in the Spanish-American and Philippine wars as major of volunteers. Another son, Thomas Harrison, entered the United States naval academy in 1897, served on the Columbia during the Spanish- American war and was drowned at Camp Wikoff, Long Island, September 7, 1898. General Wheeler received from Georgetown college, District of Columbia, the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1899. He was a visitor at the United States Military academy, West Point, 1887, 1893 and 1895, being vice-president of the board of visitors, 1887, and president in 1895; a regent of the Smithsonian Institution from 1880 to 1900. He was a member of the Protestant Episcopal church. He was also a member of the Society of Colonial Wars; of the Society of Foreign Wars; of the Society of Sons of the American Revolution; of the Society of Sons of the War of 1812; of the Society of Santiago; and of the Naval and Military Order of the Spanish-American war. His war record includes active participation in eight hundred battles and skirmishes, in more than two hundred of which he commanded, in most of which he was successful, and in many of which he displayed feats of chivalric daring and skill. He was wounded three times, sixteen horses were shot under him, eight of his staff officers were killed and thirty-two wounded. He