Hillsborough (NC) Recorder
July 24, 1861
Page 3
����������� GEN.
WISE�S ADVANCE�The advance of Gen. Henry A. Wise and
the movements of his son, O. Jennings, are not at all relished by the
Ohioans.� A recent number of the
Cleveland Herald, says the rebel forces, under Gov. Wise, have reached the
valley of the Kanawha, and are advancing towards the Ohio river.�
He and his 10,000 rebels have reached Riply,
(the county seat of Jackson) a small town of 200
inhabitants, 350 miles W. N. W. of Richmond.
����������� The
Wheeling Intelligencer (Black Republican,) of the 5th, has the
following paragraph in regard to the whereabouts of Gov. Wise:
����������� A
member of the Legislature received a letter last night from Charleston,
Kanawha county, stating positively among other things that Wise is in Charleston, (or was when
the letter was written,) at the head of a large force, and haranguing the
people, and appealing to them to take up arms.�
The writer says the populace are being
electrified by Wise�s eloquence.� His
son, the redoubtable O. Jennings, is accompanying him.� Special dispatches to the Cincinnati
papers, received last night, report Wise on his way down the Kanawha to the Ohio.� Intense excitement exists in that
neighborhood.
[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]
