Eppa Hunton, Confederate Brigadier General, 8th Virginia Infantry, Confederate States of America

- Eppa Hunton, Confederate Brigadier General, 8 th Virginia Infantry, Confederate States of America, Lee’s Lieutenant and commanding officer at Gettysburg, U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Virginia - Lees Centennial by Charles Francis Adams signed by Eppa Hunton on the front endpaper. As a colonel Eppa Hunton took command of the 8th Virginia Infantry in 1861 and that July under Gen P. T. Beauregard, Huntons brigade helped to halt a Union advance on Richmond. He distinguished himself at Ball's Bluff and then commanded Picketts brigade after Pickett's wounding at Gaines Mill. Hunton led Picketts men through the balance of the Peninsula Campaign, acquitting himself with distinction. Huntons brigade was with Pickett at Gettysburg after which he was promoted to brigadier general for his valor. During the last stages of the war, Hunton was involved in battle around Richmond including Cold Harbor and Five Forks. He was captured at Saylers Creek on August 6, 1865 and was imprisoned for three months at Fort Warren in Boston Harbor. But Hunton was more than a Confederate General. After the Civil War, Hunton would rise politically in Reconstruction era Virginia and serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.