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Identifier: newyorkstatesprov2harr (find matches)
Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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JOHN SERGEANT WISE JOHN SERGEANT WISE, son of Henry A. Wise of Virginia,and Sarah, daughter of the Hon. John Sergeant of Phila-delphia, was born at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 27,1846, when his father was United States minister to Brazil.After 1847 he lived at the paternal residence in the county ofAccomac, Virginia, and in Richmond, when his father was Gov-ernor, from 1856 to 1860. He attended several preparatoryschools, and entered the Virginia Military Institute at Lexing-ton. There he remained until May, 1864, when the school corpsjoined General Breckenridge in the Shenandoah Valley to repelGeneral Siegel. In the battle of New Market, May 15, 1864,Mr. Wise was wounded. In the summer of 1864 he was lieuten-ant in the provisional army of the Confederacy, and was in thebattle of Saltville. The next winter he was adjutant of a reservebattalion of artillery, and when Richmond was evacuated he wasdespatch-bearer from Jefferson Davis to General Lee. Mr. Wisecommunicated with Gene

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