Hunter enlisted as a private in Co. A of the 3rd VA Cavalry, the Boydton Cavalry, on June 1, 1863. He was hospitalized in June 1864 in Richmond, Va for diarrhea and was granted a furlough to return home to Ridgeway, NC, where he was transferred to Co. E of the 1st NC Cavalry in July of 1864.
Hunter was a farmer in Warren County, NC in the 1880, 1900, and 1910 censuses. He died February 21, 1923 of kidney and heart disease and is buried in Fairview Cemetery in Warrenton, NC.
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