Hunt

gaged the Confederate artillery in a duel on July
3. As his ammunition approached exhaustion he
stopped firing, and ten minutes later Pickett
started his famous charge. With his remaining
ammunition Hunt reopened fire and broke this
charge, thus marking the turning point of the
war. During the Wilderness campaign, he con-
tinued to serve as chief of artillery. On June 27,
1864, Grant issued an order placing him in gen-
eral charge of all siege operations about Peters-
burg. On this duty he remained until the end of
the war. He was brevetted major-general, Mar.
13,1865.

After the war he was sent to Fort Smith, Ark.,
to command the Frontier District. In 1866 he
was mustered out of the volunteer service, and
reverted to his regular army rank of lieutenant-
colonel, 3rd Artillery, to which he had been pro-
moted in 1863. In 1869, he became colonel of the
5th Artillery. In 1870 he collected, disarmed,
and returned to their homes, without expense to
the government, the bands of Fenians then dis-
turbing the Canadian border. Ten years later he
was assigned, under his brevet commission, to
command the Department of the South, and re-
mained in this assignment until he retired in
1883. He then settled in Washington, becoming
in 1885 governor of the Soldier's Home in that
city. His death occurred while on this duty.
Hunt was married twice: first to Emily C. De
Russy, daughter of Col. R. E. De Russy, who
died in 1857, and second to Mary B. Craig, who
survived him. Hunt was an exceptionally able
artillery leader, whose services were not ade-
quately appreciated by his government during
his lifetime.

War of the Rebellion: Official Records (Army),
i sen, XI (pts. i 2, 3), XIX (pts. 1,2), XXI, XXV
(pts. i, 2), XXVII (pts. i, 2, 3), XXXVI (pts. i, 2, 3) J
David FitzGerald, In Memoriam: Gen. Henry J. Hunt
{1889); papers by Hunt and other valuable references
in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (4 vols., 1887-
88); G. W. Cullum, Biog. Reg. (srd ed., 1891); John
Bigelow, The Peach Orchard, Gettysburg (1910) ; Prof.
R. M. Johnston, Bull Run (1913); W. E. Birldrimer,
Hist. Sketch of the Artillery of the U. S. A. (1884) J
W. E. Birkhimer and J. E. Johnston, in Twentieth Ann.
Reunion Asso. Grads. U. S. Mil. Acad. (1889); T. B.
Wyraan, Geneal. of the Name and Family of Hunt
(1862-63) J Army and Navy Reg., Army and Navy
Jour., Feb. 16, 1889; Evening Star (Washington), Feb.
u, 1889; certain information from Col. J. E. Hunt, a
son of H. J. Hunt] C. H. L.

HUNT, ISAAC (c. 1742-1809), author, clergy-
man, father of Leigh Hunt, was born in Bridge-
town, Barbados. Isaac, his father, was the rec-
tor of St. Michael's; his mother was an "O'Brien,
or rather Bryan'* (Autobiography of Leigh
Hunt, post, p. 7). While a child he was in-
dulged and spoiled by his parents. For his edu-
cation he was sent to the Academy at Phila-

Hunt
delphia (now the University of Pennsylvania),
where he was entered by Thomas Gilbert in 1757.
He graduated in 1763 and secured a tutorship in
English^ which he held three months. He first
threw himself into the turbulent politics of the
province by writing A Letter from a Gentleman
in Transilvania under the pseudonym of Isaac
Bickerstaff. This letter, published in August
1764, reviewed the late disturbance in Pennsyl-
vania and attacked the proprietors. About the
same time he published The Medley, a broadside
savagely attacking David James Dove [q.v.] and
accusing him of gross immorality. In 1765 Hunt
launched a series of satires beginning with A
Huwble Attempt at Scurrility. In Imitation of
Those Great Masters of the Art, the Rev. Dr.
Sm~-th; the Rev. Dr. Al—n; the Rev. Mr.
Ew-n; the Irreverent D. I. D-ve, and the Heroic
J-n D-------n, Esq.; . . . by Jack Retort, Stu-
dent in Scurrility. This was followed by The
Substance of the Exercise Had This Morning in
Scurrility-Hall (1765) and several numbers en-
titled A Continuation of the Exercises in Scur-
rility-Hall (1765). His humble attempts to lam-
poon the authorities were successful, for in 1766,
when he applied for his master's degree at the
college, the trustees decided that the author of
such "scurrilous and scandalous pieces" was un-
worthy of further honors. Five years later, how-
ever, the authorities relented and conferred the
degree.
When he spoke the farewell oration on leaving
college Mary Shewell, daughter of a prominent
Philadelphia merchant, fell in love with him.
His exquisite reading of poetry completed the
conquest of her heart and they were married in
Christ Church on June 17,1767. He studied law,
was admitted to the bar, and on the eve of the
Revolution was practising with distinction. He
championed the British government with a ve-
hemence beyond discretion. In 1775 he published
The Political Family, urging the advantages
which flow from an uninterrupted union between
England and her colonies; this was the essay
with which he had unsuccessfully competed for
the Sargent Medal of the College in 1766. In Au-
gust 1775, Hunt, representing William Conn, is-
sued a summons against George Schlosser, who,
acting as a member of the Continental Associa-
tion, had seized linen imported by Cora. The
committee summoned Hunt, and after disetrssioa
and delay they determined that he needed "a
good American coat of tar and feathers laid on
with decency/' On Sept 6, he was carted from
his home to a coffee house, but his tact and hu-
mility saved him from further injury. Escaping
to England, he there took orders ia the Church,