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Auction of Civil War VMI Cadet Autograph Ends Tonight

Steven | November 26, 2008

Here’s something you don’t run across every day. This is the clipped signature of John S Wise, who was a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute during the Civil War, and fought as cadet at the Battle of New Market.  Later in the war he became a Lieutenant in the Confederate Army.
After the war, he [...]