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HENRY JACKSON HUNT (1819-1889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 934 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:JACKSON See also:HUNT (1819-1889)  , See also:American soldier, was See also:born in See also:Detroit, See also:Michigan, on the 14th of See also:September 1819, and graduated at the U.S. military See also:academy in 1839 . He served in the Mexican See also:War under See also:Scott, and was breveted for gallantry at Contreras and Churubusco and at Chapultepec . He became See also:captain in 1852 and See also:major in 1861 . His professional attainments were See also:great, and in 1856 he was a member of a See also:board entrusted with the revision of See also:light See also:artillery See also:drill and See also:tactics . He took See also:part in the first See also:battle of See also:Bull Run in 1861, and soon afterwards became See also:chief of artillery in the See also:Washington defences . As a See also:colonel on the See also:staff of See also:General M`Clellan he organized and trained the artillery reserve of the See also:Army of the See also:Potomac . Throughout the See also:Civil War he contributed more than any officer to the effective employment of the artillery See also:arm . With the artillery reserve he rendered the greatest assistance at the battle of See also:Malvern See also:Hill, and soon afterwards he became chief of artillery in the Army of the Potomac . On the See also:day after the battle of See also:South See also:Mountain he was made brigadier-general of See also:volunteers . At the See also:Antietam, Fredericksburg and See also:Chancellorsville, he rendered further See also:good service, and at See also:Gettysburg his handling of the artillery was conspicuous in the repulse of Pickett's See also:charge, and he was rewarded with the See also:brevet of colonel . He served in See also:Virginia to the end of the war, attaining the brevet ranks of major-general of volunteers and brigadier-general of regulars . When the U.S. army was reorganized in 1866 he became colonel of the 5th artillery and See also:president of the permanent Artillery Board .

He held various commands until 1883, when he retired to become See also:

governor of the Soldiers' See also:Home, Washington, D.C . He died on the 11th of See also:February 1889 . He was the author of Instructions for See also:Field Artillery (186o), and of papers on Gettysburg in the " Battles and Leaders " See also:series . His See also:brother, LEwls See also:CASS See also:HUNT (1824-1886), served throughout the Civil War in the See also:infantry arm, becoming brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862, and brevet brigadier-general U.S.A. in 1865 .

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