Edward Bissell Hunt
1822–63
American engineer. Commissioned in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, 1845; captain, 1859; major, 1863. Assistant professor of engineering, Military Academy at West Point, 1846–9. Coast survey duty, Superintendent’s Office, Washington DC, 1851. Corps of Engineers, Key West, Florida, 1857–62. Chief of engineering, Shenandoah Valley, 1862.
Source
Cullum 1891.
Bibliography
Cullum, George Washington. 1891. Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the US Military Academy at West Point, NY, from its establishment, in 1802, to 1890. With the early history of the United States Military Academy. 3d edition, revised. 3 vols. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin.
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