SMITHFIELD / Va. // DEC / 9 / (1864) red CDS on WALLPAPER cover of pale gray, white and blue floral design with manuscript “Paid 10” and addressed to Cpt. George D. Wise, Genl Wise’s Brigade, Chaffins Bluff near Richmond. This is said to be the latest reported Confederate use from Smithfield, to which I cannot attest. Signed Brian M. Green. $450.

Capt. George Douglas Wise (1831-1906) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia; born at "Deep Creek," the Wise estate in Accomack County, near Onancock, Va., June 4, 1831; was graduated from Indiana University at Bloomington; studied law in the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Richmond, Henrico County, Va.; captain in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Commonwealth attorney of the city of Richmond from 1870 to 1889, when he resigned; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1889); chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Forty-ninth Congress); presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Fifty-first Congress and served from March 4, 1889, to April 10, 1890, when he was succeeded by Edmund Waddill, Jr., who contested his election; elected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895); chairman, committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses); died in Richmond, Va., February 4, 1908; interment in Hollywood Cemetery. He was nephew of Henry Alexander Wise, 33rd governor of Virginia and Confederate General, although a vehement opponent of immediate secession by Virginia. Source: U.S. House of Representatives