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Dunning a Washington D.C. judge for non-payment of taxes in an autograph letter signed 13 February 1880 on U.S. House of Representatives letterhead to Andrew Wylie Associate Judge on the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia

53603 — 4to. One page approximately 100 words in part: "I think there must be good and legal reason why you have not paid these taxes. I cannot think that you who has been selected to administer and declare and enforce the law can refuse to pay what the law requires." Folded. A little browned but very good. A native of Fauquier County Virginia Hunton practiced law serving as commonwealth's attorney and gained the upper ranks of the Virginia militia before the war; he commanded the 8th Virginia until gaining a brigade in 1863 fighting in most of the campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia being wounded at Gettysburg. In addition to his national political service following the war he wrote an autobiography that was not published until 1933; it is one of the rarest and most sought after of Civil War memoirs. <br/><br/> unknown books