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.