Hillsborough (NC) Recorder

July 24, 1861

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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 5^th, 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]