Joe Wheeler State Park, Al to Wilson Lake, Al

October 18^th, 2015
Sunday
Miles Traveled 14.1
Total Miles Traveled 684
Days 35-39
 
Saturday marked the last day of the AGLCA Fall rendezvous, it was a very informative week meeting people from all over the country either planning, currently progressing, or having completed America’s Great Loop.  One couple attending the rendezvous are from  Australia,  they purchased their boat in Florida last year and have completed the east coast, Canada and the river system to here.  They are in this group of boats leaving early this morning heading to General Joe Wheeler Lock and Dam; they were all locking through together.  We decided to lay back and let everyone spread out in the river system before starting and helped them at the docks as they were leaving.

 

General Joe Wheeler was an American military commander and politician.  He has the rare distinction of serving as a general during wartime for two opposing forces: first as a noted cavalry general in 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.  General Joe Wheeler is  buried in Arlington Cemetery in.

We left the marina about 11 a.m. this morning, locked through to Wilson Lake, and anchored in Six Mile Creek only a few miles from Wilson Lock and Dam.   Tomorrow morning we will lock through Wilson lock to Pickwick Lake continuing on the Tennessee River.