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Collection Reference Number GLC02382.036
From Archive Folder Collection of Henry Jackson Hunt 
Title Henry Jackson Hunt to Henry Knox Craig discussing family
Date ca. 7 February 1868
Author Hunt, Henry Jackson (1819-1889)  
Recipient Craig, Henry Knox  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Hunt discusses salmon he previously sent to Craig. Mentions Julia and Conway, his children. Discusses other family or mutual acquaintances. Year inferred from content. Signed as "H.J.H." Includes a pencil note on page 3. Letter was originally with others in an envelope labeled "Private Letters from Eastport to General Craig &c."
Subjects Children and Family  Diet and Nutrition  Union General  
People Hunt, Henry Jackson (1819-1889)  Craig, Henry Knox (1791-1869)  Hunt, Conway Bethune (1861-1947)  Hunt, Julia Herrick (1867-1954)  
Place written Eastport, Maine
Theme The American Civil War; Women in American History; Children & Family
Sub-collection Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Additional Information Folder information: Henry Jackson Hunt was Chief of the Artillery in the Army of the Potomac. Considered by his contemporaries the greatest artillery tactician and strategist of the war, he was a master of the science of gunnery and rewrote the manual on the organization and the use of artillery in early modern armies: Instruction for field artillery. Prepared by a board of artillery officers, consisting of Captain Wm. H. French...Captain Wm. F. Barry...Captain H.J. Hunt...To which is added The evolutions of batteries, tr. from the French by Brigadier General R. Anderson (New York, D. Van Nostrand, 1864). Hunt was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Samuel Wellington Hunt, a career infantry officer. As a child he accompanied his father in 1827 to the Kansas Territory on an expedition to found Fort Leavenworth. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1839 as second lieutenant in the 2nd U.S. Artillery. He served in the Mexican War where he was elevated to captain and major. Hunt received attention when in the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861, his four-gun battery covered the retreat of a Union force with an artillery duel. He soon afterword became the chief of artillery in defense of Washington, D.C. As a colonel on the staff of McClellan, he organized and trained the artillery reserve and fought in the Peninsular Campaign. His keen work influenced battles at Malvern Hill, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. His most famous service occurred at Gettysburg. He served in Virginia through the end of the war. Following the Civil War, Hunt held various military posts. He served as president of the permanent Artillery Board. He also served at Fort Sullivan, Eastport, Maine (1868), Fort Adams, Newport, Rhode Island (1869-1872 definitely, and possibly until 1874), military commander at Charleston, South Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia (1875-1880), commander, Department of the South (1880-1883), and as Governor of the Soldier's Home in Washington D.C. (1883-1889). Craig served as Chief of Ordnance 1851-1861.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945