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Wheeler Road
7.1-mile-long highway in Georgia, U.S.
Wheeler Road is a 7.1-mile-long (11.4 km) major highway in the east-central part of the U.S. state of Georgia, traveling through the southeastern part of Columbia County and the northeastern part of Richmond County. For its entire length, it is an urban corridor of the Augusta metropolitan area. It connects Evans and Martinez with Augusta. Even though Georgia does not sign its county highways, except for on green street signs, Wheeler Road is Columbia County Route 573 (CR 573).
It is named for Joseph Wheeler, an American military commander and politician.[citation needed] He had the rare distinction of serving as a general during wartime for two opposing forces: first as a noted general in the cavalry of the Confederate States Army in the 1860s during the American Civil War, and later 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.