HUNT, HENRY JACKSON (1819-1889)

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HUNT, HENRY JACKSON (1819-1889) , American soldier, was born in

Detroit

DETROIT

, Michigan, on the 14th of September 1819, and graduated at the U.S. military

academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

in 1839. He served in the Mexican War under Scott, and was breveted for gallantry at Contreras and Churubusco and at Chapultepec. He became captain in 1852 and major in 1861. His professional attainments were

great

GREAT

, and in 1856 he was a member of a board entrusted with the revision of light artillery

drill

DRILL

and tactics. He took part in the first battle of

Bull

Run in 1861, and soon afterwards became

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

of artillery in the Washington defences. As a colonel on the staff of General M`Clellan he organized and trained the artillery reserve of the Army of the Potomac. Throughout the Civil War he contributed more than any officer to the effective employment of the artillery arm. With the artillery reserve he rendered the greatest assistance at the battle of Malvern Hill, and soon afterwards he became

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

of artillery in the Army of the Potomac. On the day after the battle of

South

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

Mountain he was made brigadier-general of volunteers. At the Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, he rendered further good service, and at Gettysburg his handling of the artillery was conspicuous in the repulse of Pickett's charge, and he was rewarded with the brevet of colonel. He served in 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 president of the permanent Artillery Board. He held various commands until 1883, when he retired to become

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

of the Soldiers'

Home

, Washington, D.C. He died on the 11th of February 1889. He was the author of Instructions for Field Artillery (186o), and of papers on Gettysburg in the " Battles and Leaders "

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

.
His brother, LEwls CASS HUNT (1824-1886), served throughout the Civil War in the infantry arm, becoming brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862, and brevet brigadier-general U.S.A. in 1865.

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