The Orange County, Ca., Register of January 24th reports that a Real Son of a Confederate soldier, Joe Wheeler, 92, was honored this past Saturday by the Orange County SCV Camp.
He was the son of Augustus Wheeler. His father was 68 when he was born. His mother was 15 when she married Augustus. Augustus died before Joe turned two, so he never did get to know his father.
Not much is know of his father, other than he was born in 1847 and served in the 24th Mississippi Cavalry. That would have made him 18 when the war ended. Joe Wheeler knows little of his father because his mother remarried soon after Augustus' death, and her new husband didn't want any talk of the first husband.
He received an honorary Sons of Confederate Veterans lifetime membership and a Real Son medal. The SCV camp knows of only one other Real Son in California.
"Son of Civil War veteran honored in Rancho Santa Margarita" by Lori Basheda.
Those Old Confeds Sure Had Some Stamina. --The Old B-R'er
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