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I'm
Rob Salzman of
4130 SW 117th Ave # 415 Beaverton, OR,
97005 USA.
Welcome to e-familytree.net. E-familytree.net is my personal genealogy hobby site.
The data contained here has been gathered through 20 years of genealogy. Some small
part of it is my original research, but most of it has been shared with me.
It is important to understand:
This is SPECULATIVE DATA. Most of it is unverified. Use it for hints and pointers, but DO
YOUR OWN RESEARCH!
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This website built on November 02, 2009.
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Family Sheet
HUSBAND
Father: Francis Kinloch Huger Colonel
Mother: Harriott Lucas Pinckney
WIFE
Born: Abt 1805
Died:
Father: Thomas Pinckney
Mother: Elizabeth Izard
CHILDREN
Born: 23 May 1843 at Fort Monroe, Virginia
Died: 17 Sep 1878
Husband: John Smith Preston Major
NOTES
1). Benjamin Huger was born in Charleston, South Carolina , on November 22, 1805. He graduated from the U.S. Militar y Academy at West Point in 1825, standing 8th in a class o f 37. He was then commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant of artille ry. For three years he served in the topographical servic e and by 1832 was Captain of ordnance. For the next few yea rs, Huger was put in command, respectively, of the arsenal s in Harper s Ferry, Pikesville, and finally in his hometow n, Charleston. In 1840 he was sent abroad by the army to st udy European methods of warfare. He became an expert in ord nance and was appointed to the ordnance board of the War De partment. When the Mexican War broke out, he headed the ord nance bureau under General Winfield Scott. His military act ion at Vera Cruz and at Chapultepec earned him promotion fr om Major to Colonel. When Fort Sumter fell, Colonel Huger r esigned from the War Department and returned to Charleston . He was given command of the Department of Norfolk on Ma y 23, 1861 and became Brig. General C.S.A. on June 17, 186 1. He was named Maj. General on October 7, 1861. In the ope ning phases of the first Peninsular campaign he evacuated N orfolk May 9, 1862 and withdrew to join the army defendin g Richmond. When the Peninsular campaign was in full swing , Huger was given the command of a division in General John ston s army. He led a division at the Battle of Seven Pines , Gaines s Mill, Glendale, and at Malvern Hill. General Jam es Longstreet criticized him severely for his dilatory move ments at Seven Pines. He was subsequently investigated by t he C.S.A. Congress and held responsible for the loss of Roa noke Island February 8, 1862 . On July 12, 1862, he was re lieved of his command and transferred to the West where h e was given an inspectorship in ordnance and artillery. Bef ore the war was over he was sent to the Trans Mississippi A rmy, where he fought on until the surrender of the Confeder ate forces at Appomattox. After the war he was a farmer i n Virginia and North Carolina. Huger died on December 7, 18 77in Charleston, South Carolina.
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