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The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], To the citizens of Charleston. (search)
Election for Senator. --The election for State Senator from the counties of Jefferson and Berkeley, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Major E. M. Moore, which took place at the County Court House yesterday, was altogether a one-sided affair. The following was the vote: For Wm. Burnett, of Jefferson34 For Andrew Hunter, Jefferson1 For J. Blair Hoge, of Berkeley4 From present appearances Mr. Burnett's election seems highly probable, though the vote from the army may affect the result.
The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], By the Governor of Virginia. (search)
st be confessed has hitherto shown little grasp or earnestness, or capacity, fails to rise to the height of the great argument before it, then may be expected such misery as upon earth has never yet been known. Gold in New York, on the 15th, was 155 ¼, which was higher than at any time since April last. The New York Herald's correspondent says the impression prevails that Davis will not be expelled, but that the Senate will express disapproval at Davis's course. Gens. Cadwallader, Hunter, and Wedsworth have been appointed a committee to go to Chattanooga and investigate the Chickamauga fight. The New York Herald says Fremont is determined to run as an independent candidate for President, and fears the canvass will be carried on to scenes of violence, bloodshed, and confusion. Grant has left Nashville to prepare for a great conflict in East Tennessee. The Washington Chronicles says Gen. Magruder has 16,000 men under him in Texas. A number of mechanics and
The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], Election of State Senator. (search)
Election of State Senator. --On Thursday last an election was held for State Senator for the district composed of the counties of Jefferson and Berkeley. The returns received leave no doubt of the election of Andrew Hunter, Esq., of Jefferson.
The Daily Dispatch: February 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Legislature. (search)
slature. In the Senate yesterday, there was but little business to transact. A joint resolution from the House in regard to the accounts of the Public Printer, was referred to the Finance Committee. The Committee on Privileges and Elections reported that the following gentlemen had been duly elected to fill vacancies at late special elections: J. J. Graham, vice Lt. Col. Peters, resigned; E. T. Taylor, vice John Seddon, deceased; Wm. Mahone, vice W. E. Taylor, resigned; Andrew Hunter, vice E. L. Moore, resigned. Laid on the table. The joint Committee of Conference, on the disagreement of the two Houses on the bill for the relief of soldiers' families residing within the lines or under the control of the enemy, reported a recommendation that the House recede from its amendment. A bill in regard to compensation to the pages and porters, clerk of Salt Committee, &c., communicated from the House, was passed. Adjourned. In the House, the bill to provide comp
The Daily Dispatch: August 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], Five hundred dollars reward. (search)
ry persons selected as hostages for the safety of several respectable citizens — non-combatants — captured by the "fiend" Hunter in his expedition into Virginia. The Enquirer, we take for granted upon good authority, makes the following statement: "five more who will be in if the war lasts long enough. A fugitive from his county, he was captured in Rockbridge, and by Hunter's order put in chains because he had resisted the invaders of the State with arms in his hands. He has been confined likss he received at his hands and his generous board, he drew a sketch of his house in Lexington before it was burned under Hunter's order, and another of it while burning, for Harper's Weekly. Another case of especial interest which has recently th, has been put in close confinement, and in frons, at Macon, Georgia, in retaliation for similar treatment of Colonel August W. McDonald, who was captured near Lexington, Virginia, by Colonel Crook's regiment during Hunter's raid up the Valley.
The Daily Dispatch: August 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], Four thousand five hundred dollars reward. (search)
General Hunter. We learn that this individual, denominated "fiend" by his own military colleague,--the brave Mulligan —— is the son of the late Rev. Andrew HuntRev. Andrew Hunter, of Fairfax county. He was born in that county, and is sixty or sixty-five years old. His father and the father of Andrew Hunter, Esq., of Charlestown, Jefferson Andrew Hunter, Esq., of Charlestown, Jefferson county, were brothers. The father of the latter gentleman was named David, and the General was named after him. As a peculiar display of his brutality and his utter as human — it was by his order that the beautiful residence of his cousin, Andrew Hunter, was burned. That gentleman he captured and carried off a prisoner; but fo year lapped up by the flame ! This is General David Hunter ! His relative, Andrew Hunter, is one of the most distinguished men in the Valley. He has been a member Union. He has proved his loyalty to the South and has suffered terribly. General Hunter is an example of that peculiar depravity which leads a Virginian to become <
The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], Why Chambersburg was burnt. (search)
s to be burned; that the sum of money demanded was to reimburse Andrew Hunter, William Lucas, E. J. Lee and Hon. Alexander R. Boteler for thelosses, caused in the destruction of their property by order of General Hunter, and that he felt perfectly justified in the course he had pursued. He explained how General Hunter had burned the house of his (Hunter's) cousin, in Jefferson county, Virginia, and taken that cousin (AndHunter's) cousin, in Jefferson county, Virginia, and taken that cousin (Andrew Hunter) off as a prisoner, and said that the act was a brutal one, because the inmates of the house were not allowed time to save even a pAndrew Hunter) off as a prisoner, and said that the act was a brutal one, because the inmates of the house were not allowed time to save even a portion of their clothing. In concluding, he said it would be the future policy of the rebel Government to retaliate in the severest manner f he was only doing his duty to those people who had suffered by General Hunter's orders; and again, because he believed that by retaliation suscontinued than in any other way. He was particularly severe on General Hunter, and said that, should he fall a prisoner into their hands, his
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