Leonard Henderson Hunt

He was elected First Lieutenant of the Milton Blues militia company before February 1860 and in August 1860 was a prosperous 24 year old druggist and owner of 13 slaves at Milton in Caswell County, NC. He and the Blues enrolled there on 24 April 1861 and he mustered as First Lieutenant of Company C of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861 and he was elected Captain on 1 May 1862. He was wounded at Gaines' Mill, VA on 27 June.

He commanded the company in Maryland and was commended for "gallant bearing" in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 by Lieutenant Colonel Ruffin in his after-action report.

He was detailed to their new brigade commander Brigadier General Dorsey Pender as Acting Assistant Inspector General (AAIG) by December 1862 and appointed Major and AAIG on 2 June 1863. He was on General Cadmus Wilcox's staff as AAIG after Pender's death in July 1863 and into 1865.

In 1880 he was a farmer in Milton, NC but by 1900 and to at least 1910 was a tobacconist and tobacco warehouse proprietor there.

His service from Moore's Roster,1 his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, and Krick.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Susan Isabelle "Belle" Thornton (1830-) in December 1856 and they had a daughter Emma (1857-1914). He married again, (her cousin?) Signora S Thornton (1842-1915) in January 1881; her brother Samuel R. Thornton had also been a Lieutenant in Company C of the 13th North Carolina. He died of wounds received at Chancellorsville, VA in May 1863.

06/23/1837; Granville County, NC

01/13/1918; Milton, NC; burial in Thornton Family Cemetery, Semora, NC