Gillett parked Hunt’s “ghost train” somewhere east of the Round Tops where the unreported wagons quietly blended in alongside the ammunition trains of the First, Second, and Eleventh corps. The caravan contained not only ordnance and materiel for the artillery battalions, but copious amounts of provisions for the campaign trail. After serving under McClellan, Burnside, and Hooker, Henry Hunt had learned the hard way that he could not fully depend upon headquarters to sustain the needs of his artillery. Meade, however, was different in that Hunt respected both his character and his truthful
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The Ghost Train of Gen. Hunt
