Word: roberdeau
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...Named for Major Chatham Roberdeau Wheat, who. after a rousing military career in various Latin American and Italian wars, returned home at the outbreak of the Civil War, recruited a 5OO-man cavalry battalion called the "Louisiana Tigers," which made a brilliant showing from the first Battle of Bull Run until Wheat's death at the battle of Gaines's Mill in 1862. He fell with a bullet through his head, crying: "Bury me on the field, boys...
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