Auction of Civil War VMI Cadet Autograph Ends Tonight
Posted By Steven on 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 got his law degree, served as US District Attorney in Virginia, and served in Congress.
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