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Major General General Joseph Wheeler

Like many of his contemporaries Joseph Wheeler received his training at West Point graduating in 1859 at the age of 23. Prior to the war he served in what is now New Mexico and received the nick name “Fightn’ Joe” during a skirmish with a local Indian tribe, he was promoted brevet 2nd Lieutenant to 2nd Lieutenant for his actions.

He joined the Confederacy on March 16h 1861 as a 1st Lieutenant under Braxton Bragg (Namesake of Fort Bragg). By September he was promoted to Colonel and to Brigadier General just over a year later and by January 1863 to Major General. Wounded three times and having had sixteen horses shot from under him he received a reputation for leading men into battle.

Following the war, like his fellow Confederate Generals he returned to civilian life and became a planter and lawyer in Alabama. He was elected to congress in 1882 and served until 1900. During this time he was known to reach out to his Northern counterparts to try to heal the old feelings that remained.

In 1898, while still serving in Congress, he volunteered for the Spanish-American war and was given a commission as a Major General by President McKinley (who had also as a Major in the Union Army during the Civil War). He left for Cuba to become division commander for the group that included Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders. At one point during battle he is reported to have said “Let's go, boys! We've got the damn Yankees on the run again”.

Following the Cuba campaign he was sent to the Philippines serving under Arthur McArthur (father of Douglas McArthur). While there he reportedly heard an infantryman complain about the heat and having to march. Dismounting the sixty three year old General took the man’s pack and rifle, told the soldier to mount his horse and completed the rest of the march.

In 1900 he retired from the Army and resigned from Congress and moved to New York. After a long illness he died in 1906 and is one of very few former confederate officers buried in Arlington and is the only Confederate general to return as a general in the U.S. Army.

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Bob Zeller: (Author of Lincoln in 3D, Blue & Gray and Black and White, Civil War In Depth I & II) From the dawn of the photograph until the advent of practical color photography, images were hand-painted to add the color that was missing in the early photographic processes. This lost art has been admirably revived by Civil War In 3d in their meticulous tinting of stereo views of the Civil War. Following in the time-honored tradition of the anonymous artists who added color to Gardner's legendary wartime photographs and the Anthony War for the Union stereo series, Civil War In 3D reminds us with their work that the Civil War was not fought in a black-and-white world.

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Stephen M. Cobaugh is a writer, director and documentary film producer. Currently he is working on the story of the Ninety Third Pennsylvania Regiment with his film: “Brothers Ever Shall We Be”

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Civil War In 3D images' were obtained from the Library of Congress, National Archives and other quality sources. Each image has been carefully restored to remove 150 years of wear, scratches, cracks and imperfections. Then each image has spent numerous hours being hand colored to recreate, as close as possible, the original scene as it may have appeared on the day it was taken. Due to the quality of work and loving restoration that has been done, Civil War In 3D images have been accepted into the collections of photography and historical museums.

Hand coloring of images is a technique that dates to the very beginning of photography. There are many examples of period stereo view cards that were colored. With modern digital technology, the ability to color a photograph allows the image to move from a black and white photo with splashes of color, to photographs that duplicate as near as possible, life-like full color images.

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After printing, each image is professionally mounted onto standard 'Holmes' size stereo card measuring 3 1/2" x 7". Each card uses a matte board to produce a durable card nearly identical to the original cards. Other reproduction cards are printed on a slightly heavy paper on a home printer and do not have the image quality of professional photo paper, or the "feel" of a commercially mounted card. A one inch stack of these other cards would hold 97 images, while ours, with our superior mount, would only hold 16! We pride ourselves in trying to recreate the original card with the best modern technology.

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