Hunt'er, David

soldier, was born in Washington, D. C., in 1802; graduated at West Point, in 1822, and became a colonel in the regular army in 1861. In the same year he was appointed major-general of volun- teers, and a igned the command of the department of Mi ouri. In the year following he was placed at the head of the forces at Fort Royal, and i ued an unau- thoritative order freeing all the slaves within the limits of his department, May, 1863. Defeated at Lynchburg, June, 1864, he was superseded by Gen. Sheridan. He was twice brevetted for gallant services. Died in 1886. Hunter, ROBERT MERCER TALIAFERRO, statesman, was born in E ex co., Va., 1809; after graduating at the University of the State, practiced law, and was elected to Congre in 1837. From 1839 till 1841 he held the position of Speaker, supported President Polk's policy, and was the originator of the Warehousing System. From 1847 till 1861 he sat in the U. S. Senate, and upon the breaking out of the Civil War became for some months Confederate Secretary of State, and a member of the Confederate Senate. At the time of his death, in 1887, he held a small office under the U.S. government. Hunter, in New York, a post-town of Greene co. Hunting burg, in Indiana, a city of Dubois co., 44 m. E.N.E. of Evansville, on L., E. & St. L. R. R.; has flour, lumber, brick, pottery and other manufactures. Coal mines in vicinity. Pop. (1890) 3,167.