Eppa Hunton Jr.
Born: September 22, 1822
Birth Place: Warrenton, Virginia
Father: Eppa Hunton Sr. 1789 – 1830
(Buried: Hunton Cemetery, New Baltimore Virginia)
Mother: Elizabeth Mary Brent 1792 – 1866
(Buried: Hunton Cemetery, New Baltimore, Virginia)
Wife: Lucy Caroline Weir 1825 – 1899
(Buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)
Children:
Elizabeth Boothe Hunton 1853 – 1854
(Buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)
Eppa Hunton III 1855 – 1932
(Buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)
Education:
Graduated from New Baltimore Academy
Occupation before War:
Attorney in Brentsville, Virginia
1849 – 1861: Commonwealth Attorney for Prince William County
Brigadier General in Virginia State Militia
Civil War Career:
1861: Delegate to Virginia State Secession Convention
1861 – 1863: Colonel of 8th Virginia Infantry
1861: Participated in the First Battle of Bull Run
1861: Participated in the Battle of Ball's Bluff
1863: Wounded in the leg during Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg
1863 – 1865: Brigadier General in the Confederate Army Infantry
1863 – 1864: Participated in the Defense of Richmond, Virginia
1864: Participated in the Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia
1864: Participated in the Sieges of Petersburg and Richmond
1865: Participated in the Battle of Five Forks
1865: Captured during the Battle of Saylor's Creek, Virginia
1865: Imprisoned at Fort Warren, Massachusetts
1865: In July, Paroled by the Union Army at Fort Warren, Massachusetts
Occupation after War:
1865 – 1873: Attorney in Warrenton, Virginia
1873 – 1881: United States Representative from Virginia
1881 – 1892: Attorney in Warrenton, Virginia
1892 – 1895: United States Senator from Virginia
1895 – 1908: Attorney in Warrenton, Virginia
(Suffered from attacks of vertigo, blind and deaf before death)
Died: October 11, 1908
Place of Death: Richmond, Virginia
Cause of Death: Natural Causes
Age at time of Death: 86 years old
Burial Place: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia
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