Edward Hunter ( United States Army ) Edward Hunter ( November 22 , 1839 – October 12 , 1928 ) was a career American Army officer , who graduated from the United States Military Academy , ( West Point ) on June 23 , 1865 . Biography . He was born in Gardiner , Maine , and died at Mount Vernon , New York . He married Caroline Clay Hoff , ( August 1 , 1850 – July 1931 ) on March 27 , 1870 in San Francisco , California . He served in California , Georgia , Idaho , Minnesota , Nevada , New York , Puerto Rico , Virginia , Washington and Washington DC . He was commissioned a second lieutenant upon graduation from West Point and was promoted immediately as a first lieutenant in the 12th Infantry Regiment . He spent his early years as an Indian fighter before transferring to the Judge Advocate General ' s Corps and Adjutant General ' s Corps . He took part in the campaigns against the Cheyenne , Arapahoe , Kiowa and Comanche , 1868 ; the Nez Perce War , 1877 ; and the Bannock War , 1878 ; and numerous other nameless skirmishes during that time including the Battle of Soldier Spring . His first duty was the charge of military prisons in the Department of Virginia upon the surrender of Confederate Forces after the Civil War . These included Libby Prison ( this was for Union officers only and because of its high death toll , Libby Prison is generally regarded as second in notoriety only to Andersonville Prison in Georgia ) and Castle Thunder Prison ( equally known for its brutality and used to hold civilians , political prisoners and spies ) ; and the state penitentiary . He was then transferred to the Department of New Mexico . He was promoted to captain of the 1st Cavalry Regiment in August 1880 . He transferred to the Department of the Columbia and was stationed at Fort Walla Walla , Washington Territory , ( now the city of Walla Walla , Washington ) , and Fort Colville , ( now the city of Colville , Washington ) , in 1877 during and the early 1880s . ( His daughter Jane Richards Hunter was born at Fort Walla Walla , Washington Territory on July 15 , 1882 ; reportedly , ( but unauthenticated ) , the first white child to be born in what is now the State of Washington . ) He next served for two years in Washington , D . C . as an examiner of claims arising from the Civil War . He transferred to the Department of California in San Francisco as adjutant of the 12th Infantry . He was then transferred to the 1st Cavalry Regiment and appointed first quartermaster and then adjutant of the regiment . He was adjutant - general of the expedition against the Paiutes . He read for the law and was prompted to major and judge - advocate for the Department of California in December 1888 and was admitted to the California Bar . At the time he was president of the California Sons of the American Revolution . In 1895 he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and deputy judge - advocate and adjutant general in the Department of Dakota at Fort Snelling , St . Paul , Minnesota . When the Spanish - American War broke out he served first at Chickamauga as the mustering officer and then in 1898 he served under General Brooke as judge - advocate in Puerto Rico and as secretary of the committee on evacuation . He was invalided back to the United States because of ill health . He was promoted to Colonel and judge advocate general for the Department of the East at Governors Island , New York in May 1901 . He retired in 1903 on half pay at the mandatory retirement age of 64 . During his nearly forty years of service he served under Generals Miles , Gibbon , Rugur , Forsythe , Brook , Wade , McArthur and Chaffee . He was the son - in - law of Brevet Colonel Alexander Henry Hoff , Surgeon , US Army and the brother - in - law of Colonel John Van Rennselaer Hoff , Deputy Surgeon General , US Army ; January 1902 .