Henry A. Wise
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Henry Alexander Wise was an American attorney, diplomat, politician and slave owner from Virginia. As the 33rd governor of Virginia, Wise served as a significant figure on the path to the American Civ
Henry Alexander Wise, c 1857
Henry A. Wise (1846)
Gen. Wise during the American Civil War.
Wise (top row, second from right) with Robert E. Lee and Confederate officers, c. 1869.
John Brown (abolitionist)
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John Brown was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the American Civil War. An evangelical Christian of strong religious convictions, Brown was profoundly influenced by the Puritan faith
Henry A. Wise
…Constitution, governors cannot serve successive terms, so he was not a candidate for reelection in 1860. Wise was intensely interested in the case of John Brown, who briefly assaulted the town of Harpers Ferry. Wise refers several times to the need to "avenge the insulted honor of the state". He said he found…
The house in which Brown was born, in Torrington, Connecticut, was photographed in 1896 and destroyed by fire in 1918.
John Brown's Tannery, in 1885
Mary Ann Brown (née Day), wife of John Brown, married in 1833, with Annie (left) and Sarah (right) in 1851
Wood engraving of the pro-slavery mob setting fire to Gilman & Godfrey's warehouse, where Elijah Parish Lovejoy hid his printing press