Check is dated July 20^th, 1901 for Mechanic’s National Bank of New York. Check is signed by Joseph Wheeler and is made out to Wheeler’s daughter Annie Wheeler (July 31, 1868 – April 10,1955), who served as a nurse with Clara Barton, Red Cross Founder, in the Spanish- American War and also in WWI. Reverse is stamped by The Jackson Sanatorium and The Importers & Tradesman Nat. Bank of New York. Endorsed by Annie on the reverse.

Check has no tears, wrinkles or chips, save for the hole punched in the center; it is also cut cancelled just above and to the left of Wheeler’s signature. Shows very light smudges and surface dirt.

Joseph "Fighting Joe" Wheeler (September 10, 1836 – January 25, 1906) was a military commander and politician. He is known for having served both as a cavalry general in the Confederate States Army in the 1860s during the Civil War, and then as a general in the United States Army during both the Spanish–American War and Philippine–American War near the turn of the twentieth century. For much of the Civil War he served as the senior cavalry general in the Army of Tennessee and fought in most of its battles in the Western Theater. Between the Civil War and the Spanish–American War, Wheeler served multiple terms as a United States Representative from the state of Alabama as a Democrat.  [sl]

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