Born: Unknown, United States (Assumed)
Died: Unknown
Country most active: United States
US Civil War soldier – as reported in the Nashville Daily Union on June 16, 1864, p.2, c. 2:
Female Soldier Wounded.
Some two years ago a volunteer was received into an Indiana regiment, and mustered in under the name of John Wise. John made a most exemplary soldier, and was in nearly all the engagements in the Southwest. In the battle of Lookout Mountain John received a serious wound in the left shoulder, and was conveyed to the hospital, where the injury was promptly attended to. Upon removing the shirt bosom by the doctor, preparatory to a surgical examination, lo! and behold! it was discovered that John belonged to the feminine gender, and it is said that during her two year’s service not the slightest suspicion of her sex had entered the minds of her comrades in arms. Miss John Wise was in this city on Saturday, still suffering from the effect of her wound, in search of her step-mother. Some gentlemen have raised her a sum of money, and procured transportation for her to Louisville, where she has received a situation in the hospital as a nurse. Miss John Wise is a decided character, and talks as flippantly about the “good times our boys had” as any male soldier in the army.