Wheeler County State Historical Marker

Located at the Wheeler County Courthouse, Alamo, Ga.

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WHEELER COUNTY

 

This County, created by Act of the Legislature

Aug. 14, 1912, is named for Gen. Joseph Wheeler,

famous Confederate Cavalry leader and Major

General of Cavalry in the Spanish War. He

twice saved Augusta from Kilpatrick's Union

Cavalry, at Waynesboro, Ga., in 1864 and at

Aiken, S.C. in '65. For his brilliant work at

Santiago Teddy Roosevelt called him "a regular

gamecock." First County Officers were: Or-

dinary Wm. B. Kent, Superior Court Clerk John

Durden Brown, Sheriff J.F. Wright, Tax Receiver

W.T. Hadden, Tax Collector J.A. Martin, Treas-

urer Daniel Pope, Surveyor E. Miller and

Coroner James J. Brantley.

 

153-1 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1954

 

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