Eppa Hunton, Confederate Brigadier General CSA, “Lee’s Lieutenant” and commanding officer at Gettysburg, U.S. Representative and Senator from Virginia, 8th Virginia Infantry - THE LIVES OF THE LORD CHANCELLORS AND KEEPERS OF THE GREAT SEAL OF ENGLAND, from the Earliest Times till the Reign of King George IV (Volume 3 of 7 signed) by Campbell, John Lord, Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1851. Hard Cover. Good binding. Octavo. In publisher's embossed cloth. All 7 volumes present. Binding is generally worn; This belonged to Confederate General Eppa Hunton and bears his name on the first blank of Volume 3. As a colonel Eppa Hunton took command of the 8th Virginia Infantry in 1861 and that July under Gen P. T. Beauregard, Hunton's brigade helped to halt a Union advance on Richmond. He distinguished himself at Ball's Bluff and then commanded Pickett's brigade after Pickett's wounding at Gaines' Mill. Hunton led Pickett's men through the balance of the Peninsula Campaign, acquitting himself with distinction. Hunton's 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 Sayler's 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. These volumes point to a side of the owner rounding out what is often a history that is one-sided and neglects to consider Hunton's life as a statesman. Oxford American National Biography.