Henry Jackson Hunt. Library of Congress description: "Gen. H.J. Hunt, U.S.A."
Date
between 1860 and 1865
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.03181. CALL NUMBER: LC-BH831- 957[P&P]
English: Henry Jackson Hunt (
September 14,
1819 –
February 11,
1889) was Chief of
Artillery in the
Army of the Potomac during the
American Civil War. 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 use of artillery in early modern armies. His courage and tactics affected the outcome of some of the most significant battles in the war.
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