HUNT, HENRY JACKSON (1819-1889), American sol dier, was born in Detroit, Mich., on Sept. 14, 1819, and gradu ated at the U.S. Military Academy in 1839. He served with great gallantry in the Mexican War, became captain in 1852, and major in 1861. His professional attainments were great, and in 1856 he was a member of a board entrusted with the revision of light artillery drill and tactics. He took part in the first battle of Bull Run in 1861, and soon afterwards became chief 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 assist ance at the battle of Malvern hill, and soon afterwards he became chief of artillery in the Army of the Potomac. On the day after the battle of South Mountain he was made brigadier-general of volunteers. At the Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellors ville, he rendered further good service, and at Gettysburg his handling of the artillery was conspicuous. When the U.S. army was reorganized in 1866 he became colonel of artillery and presi dent of the permanent artillery board. In 1883 he retired to be come governor of the Soldiers' Home, Washington, D.C. He died on Feb. II, 1889. He was the author of Instructions for Field Artillery (186o).