United States. Surgeon-General's Office

Born in Charleston, Massachusetts, David L. Huntington, 1834-1899, studied medicine at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the army as an Assistant Surgeon in 1862. Huntington was Acting Medical Director Army of the Tennessee during Sherman's march to the sea in 1864. A career medical officer, Lt. Colonel Huntington at times served as acting Surgeon General. He also was director of the U.S. Army Medical Museum for many years before his retirement in 1898.

Biographical sketches of career naval medical officers were requested by the Surgeon General of the Army for the Army Medical Library in a January 24, 1933 letter to the Veterans Administration.