 Hunt subsequently attained the rank of full colonel and assistant adjutant general in the Union Army.Following the Civil War, Leavitt Hunt returned to New York City and his law practice for several years, until he retired in 1867 to Weathersfield, Vermont, where his wife Katherine Jarvis  had inherited the estate belonging to her father William Jarvis, a prominent Vermont businessman and diplomat best known as the first importer of Merino sheep into America.Leavitt Hunt purchased his own estate at nearby Weathersfield Bow and became a gentleman farmer.