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Date of birth | 26 September 1816 Martinsburg | ||||
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Date of death | 8 March 1888 Charles Town | ||||
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English: David Hunter Strother (September 26, 1816 – March 8, 1888) was a United States magazine author and illustrator, popularly known by his pseudonym, Porte Crayon. He contributed to The Crayon, a journal devoted to the graphic arts and literature and edited by John Durand (1822-1908), the son of Asher B. Durand, which was published with the help of William J. Stillman in New York between 1855 and 1861. In 1858, Strother assumed the pen name Porte Crayon while illustrating travelogues for Harper’s Monthly. In 1861, Harper’s sent him to the South to cover the Civil War. He accompanied the Confederate Army for a while and published in Harper's an account of the Confederate raid on Harper’s Ferry illustrated with his sketch, "The Burning of the United States Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, 10 P.M., April 18, 1861." Then, he joined the Union Army where he served on the staff of several generals, including his cousin David Hunter, as a topographer. Commissioned a captain in 1862, he became a colonel after assuming command of the 3rd (West) Virginia Cavalry, and was brevetted a brigadier-general of volunteers for meritorious service at the end of the Civil War. In 1866-1868, Harper’s Monthly published eleven installments of Strother’s "Personal Recollections of the War" under his pseudonym, Porte Crayon.
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A Storer College student.jpg 720 × 1,000; 247 KB
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Appletons' Strother David Hunter (cropped).jpg 779 × 1,097; 330 KB
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Appletons' Strother David Hunter signature.jpg 336 × 67; 14 KB
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Appletons' Strother David Hunter.jpg 888 × 1,343; 347 KB
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CanaanNight.jpg 1,922 × 2,478; 2.85 MB
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Col. David H. Strother (NARA).jpg 853 × 1,112; 214 KB
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Col. David H. Strother - NARA - 530168.jpg 1,833 × 3,000; 1.17 MB
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David Hunter Strother House, Berkeley Springs, Morgan County, WV HABS WVA,33-BERK,1-1.tif 3,574 × 4,993; 17.02 MB
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David Hunter Strother House, Berkeley Springs, Morgan County, WV HABS WVA,33-BERK,1-2.tif 4,993 × 3,588; 17.09 MB
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David Hunter Strother.jpg 272 × 411; 20 KB
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En route for Harper's Ferry LCCN2006677988.jpg 1,536 × 1,099; 348 KB
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En route for Harper's Ferry LCCN2006677988.tif 1,536 × 1,099; 1.61 MB
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Gay Head.jpg 922 × 951; 660 KB
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GreatDismalSwampMaroon1856.jpg 465 × 640; 103 KB
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Ink Drawing "The Little Napoleon" by David H. Strother.jpg 1,746 × 2,564; 4.55 MB
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John Brown on trial.jpg 1,823 × 1,361; 669 KB
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Memphis (Tennessee) before the war - sketched by Porte Crayon. LCCN95509535.jpg 4,096 × 3,254; 2.82 MB
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OP 205 Harpers Weekly March 1857 pg 438 (9093684430).jpg 2,400 × 1,314; 431 KB
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Science versus Mother Goose.jpg 2,456 × 1,608; 1.18 MB
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SinksofGandy2.jpg 3,727 × 2,974; 1.63 MB
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'Mill-boys Racing' by David Hunter Strother, c 1850.jpg 1,440 × 1,218; 241 KB
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The Southern States (1893) (14780902161).jpg 2,992 × 1,234; 594 KB
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Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries- Volume 21, page 121, 1888 (newspaper clipping).jpg 1,956 × 2,913; 1.19 MB