Biography: David Hunter

David Hunter

Biography: David Hunter

Biography: 9/21/2016

Biography

The National Parks Services presents a 2016 biography on the life of Union Army General David Hunter. The article highlights: his origins in New Jersey, early military training, military service, issuance of general order 11 (emancipation of enslaved people in the Southeast), the formation of the 1st South Carolina (Colored) Volunteer Regiment (one of the first) and his presidency of the military commission tasked with trying President Lincoln's assassins.

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