• THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.

    John Sergeant Wise: THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.
    John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.23, Anza Publishing