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David Hunter Strother
Few men had more of a ringside seat to the unfolding tensions of the Civil War in what would become the Mountain State than David Hunter Strother.
A native of Martinsburg in Berkley County, Strother was an artist trained both in Europe and New York who had returned home in 1848 to illustrate landscapes and other outdoor scenes.
David hunter strother biography
Beginning in the early 1850s, he was a regular contributor to Harper’s Monthly, using the pseudonym Porte Crayon — a corruption of the French term “pencil carrier.”
At the time of John Brown’s raid, Strother was 43 years old and a well-known illustrator and rising journalist.
Living nearby, he arrived in Harpers Ferry soon after the Marines stormed the engine house. Among his dispatches from the scene was an account of Lt. J.E.B. Stuart admonishing one of the raiders: “You son of a Bitch. You had better keep silent.
Your treatment is to be that of midnight thieves and murderers, not of men taken in honourable warfare.”