Hunt

physicians of somewhat questionable reputation,
and recovered* Meanwhile Harriot, tinder the
influence of Mrs. Mott, began the practice of
medicine and in 1835 had so far prospered that
both she and her sister began to advertise them-
selves as physicians. Their practice consisted
largely of general hygiene and hydrotherapy,
mixed with considerable psychotherapy; their
patients were chiefly neurasthenic women. "We
were frequently surprised," Harriot Hunt wrote
in her autobiography, "by the successful termina-
tion of many of our cases through prescriptions
for mental states." After her sister's marriage,
Harriot continued alone, her practice ever grow-
ing and extending beyond the confines of Boston.
She lectured frequently on the hygiene of sex
and in 1843 formed a Ladies* Physiological So-
ciety. At the meetings, often held in her house,
she talked to large groups of women. She gained
a certain notoriety by being refused admittance
to the Harvard Medical School in 1847 and again
in 1850*

In the last twenty-five years of her life, in ad-
dition to her medical practice in Boston, she be-
came one of the "emancipated ladies" of the age
and was well known as a temperance reformer,
a phrenologist, an anti-tobacconist, and a leader
in the anti-slavery movement. More important,
however, was her work for woman's suffrage.
She attended many of the early national conven-
tions and often served on committees. By 1856
she was known outside of Massachusetts as one
of the ardent supporters of the feminist move-
ment and in that year she wrote her autobiog-
raphy, Glances and Glimpses, a book of consider-
able value in depicting (in a rather narrow way)
the times in which she lived. She added nothing
definite to medicine, although she was part of the
movement which opened medical education to
women in America. Fredrika Bremer, after vis-
iting Harriot Hunt in 1853, described her
(Homes of the New World, New York, 1853,1,
142) as a "zealous little creature" and a "very
peculiar Individual'1 but added that she was
"really delighted with her."

[The principal reference is Harriot Hunt's autobiog-
raphy. See also Harriet H. Robinson, Mass, in the
Woman Suiraffe Movement (1881); Jas. R. Chad-
wick, "The Study and Practice of Medicine by Women,"
Internal. Rev., Oct. 1879; Bessie Eayner Parkes, Vi-
ffnettts (1866) ; T. B. Wyman, Gtneal, of the Nome
<md Family of Hunt (1362-63); the Boston Jour,t
Jan. 5, 1875.3 H.R.V.

HUNT, HENRY JACKSON (Sept. 14,181^-
Fefe. it, 1889), soldier, artillery officer, was born
at Detroit, Mich. Descended from Enoch Hunt,
an emigrant from England, who was admitted
Newport, R. L, in 1638 and later set-

Hunt

tied at Weymouth, Mass., he was the son of Lieut
Fanuel Wellington Hunt, 3rd Infantry, and
grandson of Col. Thomas Hunt, ist Infantry,
who had served with distinction in the Revolu-
tion. His mother was Julia Ann (Herrick)
Hunt Although the boy was but ten years old
when his father died, he received a good educa-
tion from friends and at sixteen went to West
Point, graduating in 1839 and being assigned as
second lieutenant to the 2nd Artillery. In 1846
he participated in the siege of Vera Cruz and in
the battles ending in the capture of Mexico City.
Wounded at Molino del Rey, he was highly com-
mended for gallantry and brevetted major. In
1852 he was promoted to captain. In 1856, with
W. F. Barry and W. H. French [qq.v.], he was
appointed to a board to revise the light artillery
tactics. Their report, made three years later,
was adopted by the War Department in 1860,
and was used throughout the Civil War.

It was Captain Hunt who, early in 1861, pre-
pared the arsenal at Harper's Ferry for defense,
or for destruction, should defense be impractica-
ble. He left to go to the relief of Fort Pickens,
which he secured to the Federal government.
Arriving at New York on July 13, and at Wash-
ington the next day, he marched his battery on
July 19 to the extreme left of McDowell's army
at Bull Run. On the 2ist, after the Federal
forces had been driven back, Hunt, at Black-
burn's Ford, by artillery fire alone, broke the
Confederate attempt to pursue the retreating
troops. Promoted to major, 5th Artillery, he be-
came chief of artillery of the Washington de-
fenses, and on Sept 28, 1861, he was commis-
sioned colonel and placed in charge of training
the artillery reserve of the Army of the Potomac,

He took part in the Peninsular campaign, at
Malvern Hill, July i, 1862, handling a hundred
guns with such skill as to overcome the hostile
artillery and render great assistance in winning
the battle. For his services he was appointed
brigadier-general of volunteers. At Antietam he
served with distinction. He organized the great
battery of 147 guns which opened the battle of
Fredericksburg, and suggested sending infantry
across in boats to seize the houses nearest the
water's edge, a move which led to the capture of
the town. Soon afterward his authority was ma-
terially curtailed by Hooker, the new army com-
mander, but when in the Chancellorsville cam-
paign the artillery was evidently poorly handled,
Hunt's authority was immediately restored and
enlarged.

At Gettysburg he was instrumental in secur*
ing the Peach Orchard for the Federals. Placing
seventy-seven guns along Trostie Lane, he en-

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