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(1825 - 1905)
Home State: Michigan
Education: University of Michigan, Class of 1846
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Michigan Infantry
Before Antietam
Son of former Michigan Congressman (1843-47) and attorney James Bennett Hunt (1799-1857), Charles moved to Michigan with his family at age 11 in 1836, and by 1850 he was a 26 year old lawyer living in Menzo C Stevens' hotel in Saginaw, MI. In 1860, still practicing the law, he was living with his father and siblings in Port Huron, MI.
He mustered as 1st Lieutenant of Company A, 7th Michigan in September 1861. He was wounded in action at Glendale, VA on 30 June 1862 and promoted to Captain on 30 July.
On the Campaign
When he assumed command of the brigade, Colonel Hall says [report] that he left Captain Hunt in command of the Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Baxter having been disabled by wounds. Hunt was himself wounded by gunshots to his leg and back in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the "Stone House" field hospital on the Samuel Poffenberger farm at Sharpsburg then was admitted to US Army General Hospital #2 in the City Hotel in Frederick, MD on 28 September. He was moved to a private house on 15 November 1862. He transferred to Company K, then to the Invalid Corps (later Veteran Reserve Corps) on 21 September 1863. He was discharged 30 June 1866, from the 25th Company, Second Battalion, VRC.
After the War
He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in September 1867 and by 1880 he was a lawyer living in Detroit with his aunt Mary, brother Joseph, and sister Marcia. He was the County Clerk in Cheboygan in 1885-6 and by 1900 practicing law in Detroit.
References & notes
His service basics from the State of Michigan.1 Wound and hospital details from Nelson2 and the Patient List,3 as Lieutenant Hunt. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Margaret Elsie Smith (1847-1934) in January 1883 in Detroit.
Birth
09/27/1825; Fairfield, NY
Death
04/06/1905; Ann Arbor, MI; burial in Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, MI
1 State of Michigan, Office of the Adjutant General, and George H. Brown, Adjutant General; George H. Turner, Asst. AG, compiler, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 46 volumes, Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1904-1915, Vol. 7, pp. 55 - 56 [AotW citation 11981]
2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 258 [AotW citation 31893]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #498 [AotW citation 31894]