How General Joe Wheeler Was Captured

General Wheeler had a rnost exciting service throughont the war. He has tolii me how his borses were shot under him again and again and how he escaped without injnry, although he always rode at the head of his troops. Of all the corumanders under Jefferson Davis he stuck closest to him. He was with Davis when the cabinet moved from Richmond to Cokesborough, N. C, and he then had eight brigades of oavalry. He told Davis that the soldiers considered the war was over and that he had trouble in holding his troops together. Davis did not agree with him, and he ordered 16,000 horseshoes sent there Co equip his troops tor fiight through the south. A short time later, however, when he got ready to fiy, Wheeler was about the ouly comruander who could get soldiers to go with him, and it was little General Joe who followed the Confedérate president with a troop of 500 men. Davis and his cabinet soon saw, however, that their hope was a forlorn oue, and they sent orders to Wheeler to disband his troops and takè care of himself. This Wheeler did and a short time later was oaptured by the Union troops and was sent with Jefferson Davis north to prison. Alexander Stepheus and Post; master General Reagan were taken with him, and on the way north General Wheeler says that Stephens thought he was going to sure death. He said as much to General Wheeler, and the general replied. "Well, Mr. Stephens, if this is to be your fate, what must be that of President Davis?" Alexander Stephens raised his hands and replied : "Oh, don't speak of that! His fate is too horrible to consider. " General Wheeler said he had no idea he would be killed, and the way he joked about the matter of tbeir joint imprisonmeut