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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC02382.044 |
| From Archive Folder | Collection of Henry Jackson Hunt |
| Title | Henry Jackson Hunt to Henry Knox Craig discussing the upcoming presidential election |
| Date | 21 October 1868 |
| Author | Hunt, Henry Jackson (1819-1889) |
| Recipient | Craig, Henry Knox |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Hopes Craig will consider spending future summers in Eastport, if he (Hunt) remains stationed there. Discusses the upcoming presidential election (won by Ulysses S. Grant). "So the October Elections are over and we are beaten on all the fields - This settles the November Election beyond doubt; they may cry fraud as much as they please and I have no doubt that the states all three were carried by fraud - but the result will be to send a host of those who worship success - the great Wobble party in a Mass into the radical ranks. We are only demonstrating the truth of an old American theory. 'Republican government is founded on the virtue and intelligence of the people - and is incompatible with a [great ?] debt and [illegible] public establishment which corrupt a people.'" Declares "not only are our public men corrupt but the public mind is debauched and demoralized. The democratic party has made a tremendous fight considering its disadvantages- but the reaction had not quite reached the point necessary to success. And now it will be checked if not turned back. Radicalism will have a new Carnival, and Grant is in a bad scrape. He will be humbled and disgraced if he plays King Dog He will not have the power to play King Stork - except by a shameful act of political party treachery…for he has bound himself to any course the radical leaders choose to pursue." Remarks that 'The Intelligencer' is coming to Craig's address in Maine. Writes about his son Conway's impressive progress in math. |
| Subjects | Union General Military History President Election Government and Civics Forgery and Fraud Reconstruction Finance Debt Corruption and Scandal Morality and Ethics Democratic Party Republican Party Journalism Education Mathematics Children and Family Literature and Language Arts |
| People | Hunt, Henry Jackson (1819-1889) Craig, Henry Knox (1791-1869) |
| Place written | Eastport, Maine |
| Theme | The American Civil War; The Presidency; Government & Politics |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Additional Information | Folder information: Henry Jackson Hunt was Chief of the Artillery in the Army of the Potomac. Considered by his contemporaries the greatest artillery tactician and strategist of the war, he was a master of the science of gunnery and rewrote the manual on the organization and the use of artillery in early modern armies: Instruction for field artillery. Prepared by a board of artillery officers, consisting of Captain Wm. H. French...Captain Wm. F. Barry...Captain H.J. Hunt...To which is added The evolutions of batteries, tr. from the French by Brigadier General R. Anderson (New York, D. Van Nostrand, 1864). Hunt was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Samuel Wellington Hunt, a career infantry officer. As a child he accompanied his father in 1827 to the Kansas Territory on an expedition to found Fort Leavenworth. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1839 as second lieutenant in the 2nd U.S. Artillery. He served in the Mexican War where he was elevated to captain and major. Hunt received attention when in the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861, his four-gun battery covered the retreat of a Union force with an artillery duel. He soon afterword became the chief of artillery in defense of Washington, D.C. As a colonel on the staff of McClellan, he organized and trained the artillery reserve and fought in the Peninsular Campaign. His keen work influenced battles at Malvern Hill, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. His most famous service occurred at Gettysburg. He served in Virginia through the end of the war. Following the Civil War, Hunt held various military posts. He served as president of the permanent Artillery Board. He also served at Fort Sullivan, Eastport, Maine (1868), Fort Adams, Newport, Rhode Island (1869-1872 definitely, and possibly until 1874), military commander at Charleston, South Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia (1875-1880), commander, Department of the South (1880-1883), and as Governor of the Soldier's Home in Washington D.C. (1883-1889). Among various other military posts, Hunt served as Chief of Artillery for the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. Craig was Chief of Ordnance 1851-1861. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |