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David Hunter Quotes

1802–1886

David Hunter (21 July 1802 – 2 February 1886) was a United States Army officer during the American Civil War.

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From the beginning I urged upon the Government, in the strongest terms, the enlistment of negro troops, the former slaves of the rebels, not only as adding to the number and efficiency of our own forces, but chiefly on account of its depriving the enemy of just so much labor in their fields.

Report of the military services of Gen. David Hunter (1873)

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