...rn 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-auction, till a Northern uncle, whom he met or visited in Philadelphia, took him to see Uncle Tom's Cabin on the stage. This was in the fifties, and when John S. Wise wa...