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See also: American soldier, was See also: born in See also: Detroit, Michigan, on the 14th of See also: September 1819, and graduated at the U.S. military See also: academy in 1839
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He served in the Mexican War under See also: Scott, and was breveted for gallantry at Contreras and Churubusco and at Chapultepec
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He became captain in 1852 and major in 1861
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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 artillery See also: drill and tactics
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He took See also: part in the first See also: battle of Bull Run in 1861, and soon afterwards became chief of artillery in the See also: Washington defences
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As a colonel on the staff of General M`Clellan he organized and trained the artillery reserve of the Army of the See also: Potomac
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Throughout the See also: Civil War he contributed more than any officer to the effective employment of the artillery arm
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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
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On the
See also: day after the battle of See also: South See also: Mountain he was made brigadier-general of See also: volunteers
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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 brevet of colonel
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He served in Virginia to the end of the war, attaining the brevet ranks of major-general of volunteers and brigadier-general of regulars
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When the U.S. army was reorganized in 1866 he became colonel of the 5th artillery and president of the permanent Artillery Board
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He held various commands until 1883, when he retired to become governor of the Soldiers' Home, Washington, D.C . He died on the 11th ofSee also: February 1889
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He was the author of Instructions for See also: Field Artillery (186o), and of papers on Gettysburg in the " Battles and Leaders " series
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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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