Charles Henry Hunter (September 19, 1817 – June 3, 1870), was a Pennsylvania militia officer and physician from Berks County, Pennsylvania, who served in the American Civil War.
Hunter began practicing as a physician, but was also interested in military affairs, and he enlisted as a private into the Washington Grays (Philadelphia), a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania militia regiment, and was later promoted captain.
When the American Civil War began in 1861, Hunter sided with the Union.
[1] On July 6, 1863, Hunter was mustered in as the colonel of the 42nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia Infantry, an emergency regiment formed to fight Confederate General Robert E. Lee's invasion into Pennsylvania that became known as the Gettysburg Campaign.
In 1864, he became a Surgeon in the Volunteer Aid Corps under the Major Joseph Smith.