{⋆★⋆} BG Wise, Henry A.

Henry Alexander Wise​

Born: December 3, 1806

Birthplace: Accomack County, Virginia

Father: John Wise 1765 – 1812

(Buried: Wise Cemetery, Accomack County, Virginia)​

Mother: Sarah Corbin Cooper 1777 – 1813

(Buried: Wise Cemetery, Accomack County, Virginia)​

1st​ Wife: Ann Elizabeth Jennings 1808 – 1837

(Buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)​

2nd​ Wife: Sarah Sergeant 1817 – 1850

(Buried: Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)​

3rd​ Wife: Mary Elizabeth Lyons 1817 – 1901

(Buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)​

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Children:

Mary Elizabeth Wise Garnett 1829 – 1898​

(Buried: Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.)​

Obadiah Jennings Wise 1831 – 1862​

(Buried: Wise Cemetery, Accomack County, Virginia)​

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Chaplain Rev. Henry Alexander Wise Jr. 1834 – 1869​

(Buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)​

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Captain Richard Alsop Wise 1843 – 1900​

(Buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)​

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Margaretta Ellen Wise Mayo 1844 – 1909​

(Buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)​

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Lt. John Sergeant Wise 1846 – 1913​

(Buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)​

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Education:

1825: Graduated from Washington College​

Occupation before War:

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Attorney in Nashville Tennessee​

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Attorney in Virginia​

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1833 – 1844: United States Representative from Virginia​

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1844 – 1847: United States Minister to Brazil​

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1850: Delegate to Virginia State Constitution Convention​

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1856 – 1860: Governor of Virginia​

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Civil War Career:

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1861: Delegate to Virginia State Secession Convention​

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1861 – 1865: Brigadier General of Confederate Army Infantry​

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1861: Assigned to the Western Virginia Department​

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1862: Assigned to Command the District of Roanoke Island​

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1862: Brigade Commander during the Seven Days Campaign Virginia​

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1864: Brigade Commander Department of N.C. & Southern Virginia​

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1864: Defender of Petersburg Virginia against the Yankees​

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1865: Brigade Commander Battle of Sayler's Creek Virginia​

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1865: May have been promoted to the rank of Major General​

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1865: Brigade Commander at Battle of Appomattox Court House VA.​

Occupation after War:

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1865 – 1876: Attorney in Richmond Virginia​

Died: September 12, 1876

Place of Death: Richmond Virginia

Cause of Death: Consumption

Age at time of Death: 69 years old

Burial Place: Hollywood Cemetery Richmond Virginia

 

[Pollaco]

At first it was thought He was wearing War Paint at Appomattox but he had recently washed in a muddy stream and the streaks just resembled war paint. He was a "Colorful" general!

 

[Pollaco]

When Roanoke Island was captured by Burnside in Feb. of 1862 Wise was the Confederate Commander, He lost a son in this action.

 

[Pollaco]

"the disheartening surrounding influences during the retreat to Appomatox had no effect upon Wise...his spirit was as unconquerable as four years before." These words were spoken about Wise by General Fitzhugh Lee when He was describing Wise's determination.

 

[gentlemanrob]

Happy weekend (December 3rd) Birthday Brig. General Henry A. Wise! Salutes remembering General Wise on his birthday.

 

[Pollaco]

The reason for his not running for office of Governor in 1860 was that it was in the Virginia Constitution that governors cannot serve successive terms.

 

[Pollaco]

Author of the book "Seven Decades of the Union" in 1872.

 

[Pollaco]

His son Captain Obediah Jennings Wise died in 1862 under his father's command at Roanoke Island.His other son, Richard, was an aide to his father.

 

[Reconstructed Rebel]

Wise became a Republican after the war and is quoted thus in the Baltimore Sun, September 8, 1865:

"… the chief consolation I have in the result of the war is that slavery is forever abolished, that not only the slaves are in fact, at least freed from bondage, but that I am freed from them. Long before the war indeed, I had definitely made up my mind actively to advocate emancipation throughout the South. I had determined, if I could help it, my descendants should never be subject to the humiliation I have been subject to, by the weakness, if not the wickedness, of slavery; and while I can not recognize as lawful and humane the violent and shocking mode in which it has been abolished, yet I accept the fact most heartily as an accomplished one, and am determined not only to abide by it and acquiesce in it, but to strive by all the means in my power to make it benificent to both races and a blessing especially to our country. I unfeignedly rejoice in the fact, and am reconciled to many of the worst calamities of the war, because I am now convinced that the war was a special providence of God, unavoidable by the nation at either extreme, to tear loose from us a black idol from which we could never have been separated by any other means than those of fire and blood, sword and sacrifice."

Source:

Letter of Henry A. Wise to Grant

Clipping found in The Baltimore Sun published in Baltimore, Maryland on 9/8/1865. Letter of Henry A. Wise to Grant

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[Northern Light]

Why is it that some who turned Republican after the war are vilified, while others are never mentioned?