...m; they glossed them over, as the inevitable unpleasantnesses of life are always glossed over. John S. Wise was a typical child of the South, save that he had a Northern mother. He was the son of Henry A. Wise , the famous Governor of Virginia, and he has given us a book of memoirs, The end of an era, which will be read as long as the Civil War is remembered. John S. Wise had never heard of a slave-auct...