Civil War General DAVID HUNTER FREE SLAVES ORDER # 11 ~ 1877 Art Print Engraving

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DAVID HUNTER

Artist: unknown _________________ Engraver: J. C. Buttre

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DAVID HUNTER, Major-General of Volunteers and Brevet Major-General of the regular Army of the United States, was born in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, July 21, 1802. Entering the West Point Military Academy at the age of sixteen, he graduated in 1822, the twenty-fifth in rank in a class of forty, and on the 1st of July received the appointment of second lieutenant in the Fifth Regiment of the United States Infantry. In 1828 Ire was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant, and in 1833 to a captaincy in the First Dragoons, in which capacity lie twice crossed the plains to the Rocky Mountains, he resigned his position in the army in 1836, and entered the forwarding business in Chicago, he, however, returned to the army in 1841 as paymaster, with the rank of major, which rank he held at the time of the breaking out of the civil war in 1861. Major Hunter was one of the four officers detailed by the War Department to escort the newly-elected President from Springfield to Washington; but at Buffalo, owing to the pressure of the crowd, he suffered a dislocation of the collar-bone. Shortly after, May 14, 1861, he was commissioned colonel of the Sixth United States Cavalry. At the battle of Bull Run he commanded the second division, but was severely wounded in the neck early in the action, and compelled to return to Washington. On the 3d of August, 1861, Colonel Hunter was appointed a brigadier-general of volunteers, his commission to bear date May 17, 1861; and on the 13th of August he was made a major-general of volunteers, and sent to Missouri as second in command. On the 27th of October General Fremont arrived at Springfield, and was preparing to attack Price, when, on the 2nd of November, he received a peremptory order to turn over the command to General Hunter, who arrived on the following day and formally assumed the command. On the 19th of November, 1861, General Halleck formally assumed command of the Western Department, and General Hunter was assigned to the Department of Kansas, where he remained until March, 1862. On the 15th of that month he was ordered to the Department of the South, with headquarters at Hilton Head, Port Royal, South Carolina. He arrived there on the 30th, and immediately assumed command. One of his first and most important acts was the issue of a proclamation declaring slavery abolished in his department." He also organized a negro brigade, and detailed officers to train them to the use of arms. Both willing and able, they soon attained considerable proficiency, and under the wise administration of General Saxton did good service in the cause of liberty. The Confederate Congress at "Richmond immediately passed resolutions to hang General Hunter, and also General Phelps, who had issued a similar order, if captured, instead of treating them as prisoners of war. The President annulled General Hunter's order on the 19th of May, 1862, and compelled General Phelps to resign and come home. Early in September, 1862, General Hunter was ordered to Washington to act as president of a court of inquiry on the surrender of Harper's Ferry, McClellan's Maryland campaign, etc., and as president of a number of courts-martial. On the decease of Major-General Mitchel, November 30, 1862, General Hunter was reappointed to the command of the Department of the South, but was retained in Washington by the above-mentioned court. General Hunter commanded the Department of West Virginia from May 19 to August 8, 1864. On June 5th, he met at Piedmont a Confederate force, under Major-General W. E. Jones, a cavalry officer of distinction. A spirited action resulted in the defeat and rout of the Confederates and the loss of their leader. During Hunter's march to Staunton, in the month of June, his men were engaged in several skirmishes with their foe. They took part in the action of Diamond Hill on the 17th, and of Lynchburg on the 18th. For these services he received the brevets of brigadier-general and of major-general of the United States Army. In August, 1864, Major-General Philip Sheridan succeeded Major- General Hunter in command. In July, 1866, General Hunter retired from the army.

IZE : Image size in inches is 5" x 6", overall page size is 6 1/2 " x 9 1/2".

CONDITION: Condition is good. Nothing on reverse.

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  • Material: Engraving
  • Type: Print
  • Subject: Portrait
  • Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
  • Date of Creation: 1800-1899

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