The Alabama in the Civil War Message Board

Wheeler & Bragg: 35,000 Calvary
Wheeler's Command

A private letter from Bragg's army, in the Augusta Constitutionalist, says: "Gen. Bragg has by special order placed the entire calvary of this army under Gen. Wheeler. This gives him a command of 35,000 calvary-the largest number of dragoons any general the world ever saw has had command of."

Fayettville (NC) Weekly Observer 09 Nov 1863