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Sources consulted for the biography of:James W. Hunnicutt (1814–1880)
Biographical Information
- Autobiographical material in James W. Hunnicutt, The Conspiracy Unveiled. The South Sacrificed; or The Horrors of Secession (1863), iii–x (quotation on 23)
- Birth and death dates on gravestone
- First marriage recorded in Emma R. Matheny and Helen K. Yates, comps., Marriages of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746–1853 (1967), 64 (original bonds are no longer extant)
- Second marriage in Marriage Register, Fredericksburg, 1854, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia
- Middle name given in Fredericksburg Ministers Returns, 1854, printed in Therese A. Fisher, Marriage Records of the City of Fredericksburg and the County of Stafford, Virginia: 1851–1900 (1994), p. 167
- Congressional testimony in Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the First Session Thirty-Ninth Congress (1866), Part II, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, 149–151
Newspapers
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, March 14, 1861
- Fredericksburg Christian Banner, May 17, 1862; May 27, 1862; July 2, 1862
- Richmond New Nation, March 22, 1866; August 8, 1867; August 22, 1867; December 4, 1868; December 18, 1868
Convention of 1867–1868
- Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia, Assembled at the City of Richmond, Tuesday, December 3, 1867… [1868], esp. 215–260, 310–338
- Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia, Convened in the City of Richmond, December 3, 1867… [1868], 28–29, 389
- Documents of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia [1868], 155–156
- Richard L. Hume, "Membership of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868: A Study of the Beginnings of Congressional Reconstruction in the Upper South," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 86 (1978): 461–484, esp. 482
- Richard G. Lowe, "Virginia's Reconstruction Convention: General Schofield Rates the Delegates," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 80 (1972): 346
- Richard G. Lowe, Republicans and Reconstruction in Virginia, 1857–70 (1991)
Obituaries
- New York Times, October 10, 1880
- Alexandria Gazette, October 11, 1880
- Washington, D.C., People's Advocate, October 16, 1880
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