Thomas Benjamin Hunt Captain, United States Army |
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Benjamin Hunt of Canada
Appointed from Minnesota, First Lieutenant, Regimental Quartermaster, 4th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, 23 December 1861 to 24 April 1863 Captain, Assistant Quartermaster General, United States Army, 18 January 1867 Cashiered 26 February 1874 Reappointed 12 June 1879 with former date of rank (act of 3 March 1879) Retired 20 February 1885 Breveted Major and Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. Volunteers, 28 July 1865 for meritorious services in his department and Major and Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. Army, 2 March 1867, for faithful and meritorious service in the Quartermaster Department during the war Died 7 September 1891 September 8, 1891 - Colonel T. B. Hunt, U.S.A., retired, died at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, suddenly yesterday. Colonel Hunt was a native of Canada and entered
the United States service December 28, 1861 as First Lieutenant and Regimental
Quartermaster of the Fourteenth Minnesota Infantry. He served throughout
the war with his regiment and in the Quartermaster's Department, until
placed on the retired list for disability in the line of duty, February
26, 1885. He was brevetted Lieutenant Colonel, July 28, 1865, for
faithful and meritorious services.
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