HE LED THE TIGERS.

STRANGE CAREER OF 808 WHEAT! 1 LIBERATOR AND CONFEDERATE. With Taylor »nd Scott in Mexico, Strlk* ing for Cuban Liberty, a Filibuster Un« , der Walker, and Fighting for Italian Union Under Garibaldi. JCopyrigrht, 1803, by American Press Associa tion. Book rights reserved.] j

AD the Louisiana Tigers never been , heard of, Bob Wheat would have cut a figure In local southern history and tradi tion just the same. That not because of the six feet o! electric physical manhood with

which he was favored, but for the reason that he couldn^t keep out of a "fuss," and lived in ao e*a j full of provocation to lively minded young fellows wearied with humdrum; and then he was a minister's son, born to the vice of *rraticlsm, if not to that of genius. Wheat was a Christian, a man of culture and sen timent, with an abundance of pride and jealous self respect thrown in. The Tigers were toughs from the toughest of all ren desvouses for hard characters, the New Orleans levees. How the Tigers and the lamb came to take the warpath together Is a strange story. Col. Chatham Boberdeau Wheat was born a Virginia cavalier, anF, F. V. of Huguenot blood, and was bred to manhood in that nursery ground of soldiers, the state of Tennessee. His grandfather on his mother's side was that Gen. Roberdeau, of Philadelphia, who footed Continental bills to the tune of thousands, raised troops and led them, built forts and defended them, opened lead mines to manufacture bullets and put in good work generally in aid of revolution. The streak of the old patriot's blood that fell to Bob took fire when the Mexi can war broke out, and he was the first re cruit on the roll at Memphis, where he was a law student just out of his teens. Wheat's father was responsible for the milder elements of the young man's na ture. He was rector of Christ church at Nashville, and within a few hours after the call to arms reached the Mississippi ▼alley, two war letters were traveling in opposite directions over the stage route between Memphis and Nashville. One let ter was from the peace loving rector to the young law student, saying in effect: My son, don't be carried off your feet by the war news. Wait awhile, and if more troops are really needed, and I think it your duty to volunteer, you may go. But gird your loins in patience until that hour comes. This was the letter that passed the other on its way to the rectory in Nash ville: "Dear Pa-'A chip of the old block.' I knew you would be ashamed of me if I did not volunteer as soon as the call came. My name I am proud to say is the very first on the list. I have been unanimously elected second lieutenant of a company of cavalry. Please send Jim by some careful hand." The Jim asked for was a highly trained blooded horse, the pride and pet of the family, and he was soon making paces to ward Memphis on the way to the Rio Grande. Wheat served in the Tennessee Mounted volunteers in Gen. Taylor's bat tles and afterward organized and led Gen. Scott's bodyguard. His men were well ■ mounted, elaborately uniformed and! equipped and well up in the ornamental work of headquarters nonsense, and per haps the young soldier lived too much amid war's dazzling splendor and thought that was the whole of It. The scattering of the volunteers after peace was declared landed hosts of them in New Orleans, where the "Jingo" spirit 'was always up against our southern neigh bors. Wheat settled there and quickly made fame as a criminal lawyer. He was in politics, and was a success as a stump orator, but yet he was not happy. At any rate he couldn't see a war flag floating on the broad surface of the earth but he must get behind or in front of it. His first adventure as a foreign com batant was with the Spanish-American patriot, Lopez, in the Cuban invasion of 1850. Lopez was an exiled Spaniard, whom the Cuban revolutionists had won to their cause, and raised two expeditions in the United States to invade the little island and stand by the insurgent natives. Wheat was leader of the New Orleans contingent and sailed from that port with several hundred men. He had secret orders from Lopez, and on opening them at sea found directions to meet Lopez at a certain point and proceed to Cuba. Wheat summoned his men, and in a stir ring speech told them that they must at once throw off all disguise, haul down the stars and stripes, and like Hagar in the ■wilderness, when cast off from the protec tion of Abraham, call upon the Almighty to deliver them from peril and distress. While the flag was lowered he hailed the crowd as "soldiers of the liberating army of Cuba," closing with the challenge: "Does any one doubt the propriety of our undertaking t Does any one fear to go for-

ward in it? If so, let him return!" The Cuban banner having kissed the breeze, he exclaimed, "Liberators, behold yonr flag!" The vessel sailed on to the rendezvous and united with a band under Lopez. The party landed at Cardenas and seized the town, but the Cuban population failed to keep their appointment and there was po uprising. After a little fighting the invaders backed off and sailed for New Or leans. Wheat had been wounded In the night attack on Cardenas and came out a hero In the eyes of the sympathetic south-' enters of the gulf cities. Those were days when the air was laden with the cries of the oppressed and the Impulsive. Wheat had no lack of oc- •

cupation as a professional liberator. He crossed over to Mexico to take a hand in the uprising headed by Carravajal against j the Church party. The scheme failed, and j Wheat, loath to doff his regimentals, cast lots in with the filibuster Walker, who had been his college classmate at Nash- : ville. He carried re-enforcements and arms ) to Walker at Nicaraugua after the defeat j of the filibusters at Rivas, and while there was blown from the deck of an exploding steamer, but swam ashore, taking a wounded man with him. ' I Meanwhile another and a more power- . ful uprising was afoot among the repub- | licans in Mexico, and Wheat offered his sword to Alvarez, the champion of the Lib erals against Santa Anna and the church. He was appointed general of artillery, but Alvarez resigned without a fight and took his well filled gold chests and his favorite officers to a peaceful hacienda far from the madding turmoils of revolution ana proceeded to take a rest. Wheat soon tired of the monotony, and hearing from afar the rifle blasts of Garibaldi's carbonari piercing the quiet air of sunny Italy, he crossed the ocean for a chance to polish up i his liberating sword once more. i \ Garibaldi gave him all the chance he wanted, and he went through battle and skirmish displaying the magnificent cour age, the rare horsemanship and the per* sonal chivalry of the cavalier. He was close to Garibaldi and in his confidence, and the enthusiastic Latins called him the "American Murat." He saw the thing through in Italy to the point where Gari baldi crowned Victor Emanuel king, and then set his face homeward to mix in the great fight of the age, the civil war. ! Returning through Paris, Wheat Wat presented at Napoleon's court. Soon after* ward he was strolling in the Bois de Bologne with a friend schooled in the op pressive, not to say suppressive, shadow of royalty. The Empress Eugenic happened to be in the park with her retinue, and the royalist, for fear of making a break, prch posed that Wheat and himself should back off from the divine circle that hedges in the crowned pates and retire. Wheat had no lack of respect for the situation, but didn't see the need of such squeamishness, and went his way with a gallant salute that brought a nod and smile in return from the proud Castilian who shared the throne of France. On landing in America Wheat went at once to his old chieftain, Gen. Scott, but of course couldn't agree with the old man's view of coercion against state rights, and crossed the lines to Richmond. As an ex general of Italy and of Mexico, to say noth ing of the other claims, he naturally ex pected something at the hands of Jefferson Davis. He got only a rebuff, and in his chagrin started for Pensacola to enlist as a private in a battery led by his younger brother, John Thomas Wheat, He passed through New Orleans on the way, and Gen. Twlggs halted him to help organize the raw levies flocking to the Confederate camps.

Suddenly orders reached there from Richmond asking for soldiers to help de fend Manassas against the Grand Army of the Potomac under McDowell. Wheat snatched up five companies of recruits, many of them respited jailbirds, and reached Bull Run just in time to play the hero's role. His men were fresh, were fancifully got up and were from faroff Louisiana, that had its own "bacon" to look after, and was very generous to hear the Virginians' appeal. Wheat called his men the Old Dominion Guard, as the situation suggested, but one of his companies carried a banner having a picture of a lamb under the legend, "As gentle as"—. The men styled themselves "Tigers," and in the fight at Bull Run the whole battalion imitated the terror of the jungle in fierce and reckless onslaught and resistance. The men went into the fight as Wheat's battalion and came out as the Tigers, never to shake the name. Wheat was in his element. "Beaure gar'," the idol of the creole population, gave him a placo of «hoaor. Before the battle opened he crossed Bull Run stream alone on a scout and spied out through the bushes the Union columns trying to steal a march on Beaurcgard's camp. His bat talion was afterward deployed as skir mishers in the ambush, where the head of the Union columns were treading confi dently along the woodlands expecting a surprise and an easy victory. The Tigers first encountered Burnside's brigade, and made havoc in the ranks of the Second Rhode Island regiment. Their rifles brought down Col. Slocum and Maj. Ballou, and scores and hundreds of their luckless followers. Wheat was shot through the chest from side to side, the bullet coursing both lungs. The sur geons told him he must die, because there was no case on record of recovery from such a wound. "I will put mine on record," he declared hopefully, and lived to fight another day. Beauregard praised "Wheat for nipping the Union assault in the bud, and tho Tigers, with the Black Horse cavalry, car ried off the sensational honors of the field. All Dixie rang with their praises for months. Wheat was on h*n<* to lead his men in Stonewall Jackson's campaigns in the Shenandoah valley in the spring of 1862. He went with the valley army to Rich mond, when Jackson's forces united with Lee in breaking up McClellan's lines on the Chickahominy. In the first assault on the Union batteries at Games' Mill, he was Instantly killed at the head of the storm ing party, where his tall, massive form made a "shining mark" for bullets. Wheat carried in his pocket; a book of devotions given him by his mother, and before daylight qn the morning of his death he aroused his officers and road them i the "Prayer for Joyful IleanrrecUon." After reading the "ration of the day," as he called it, he made a few remarks, punctuated with tears, and then mounted his horse and rode oil to battle with the notoriously wildest and wickedest body of men in the army. George L. Kilmer.

MAJ. C. B. WHEAT, C. S. A.

"I WILL PUT MINE ON liECORD."

THE ASHBDRTON GUARDIAN: TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 18£*1

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