Jonathan Cilley
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Jonathan Cilley was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maine. He served part of one term in the 25th Congress, and died as the result of a wound sustained in a duel with another congre
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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
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…Dueling was prohibited within the boundaries of the District of Columbia, so the participants and their seconds – George Wallace Jones for Cilley and Henry A. Wise for Graves – arranged to meet on February 24, 1838, at the Bladensburg Dueling Grounds, just outside the city limits and inside the Maryland border…
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.