Benjamin Huger
Birthplace: Charleston, South Carolina
Father: Francis Kinloch Huger 1773 – 1855
(Buried: Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina)
Mother: Harriet Lucas Pinckney 1783 – 1824
(Buried: French Protestant Huguenot, Charleston, South Carolina)
Wife: Elizabeth Celestine Pinckney 1805 – 1882
(Buried: Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland)
Children:
Major Benjamin Huger Jr. 1831 – 1867
(Buried: Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland)
Colonel Francis Kinloch “Frank” Huger 1837 – 1897
(Buried: Spring Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, Virginia)
Caroline Pinckney Huger Preston 1843 – 1878
(Buried: Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Columbia, South Carolina)
Education:
1825: Graduated from West Point Military Academy (8th in class)
Occupation:
1825 – 1861: Served in United States Army rising to Brevet Colonel
1839 – 1846: Member of United States Army Ordnance Board
1840 – 1841: Official Military duty in Europe
1841 – 1846: Commander of Fort Monroe Arsenal
1846 – 1848: Chief of Ordnance on the staff of Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott during the Mexican–American War
1856: United States Army Observer during Crimean War
1860 – 1861: Commander of Charleston Arsenal
1861: Resigned from United States Army on April 22nd
Civil War Career:
1861: Lt. Colonel of Confederate Army Infantry
1861: Brigadier General of Confederate Army Infantry
1861 – 1865: Major General of Confederate Army Infantry
1862: Participated in the Peninsula Campaign
1862: Participated in the Seven Days Campaign
1862: Inspector General of Artillery and Ordnance Northern Virginia
1862 – 1865: Inspector of Artillery and Ordnance Trans – Mississippi
Farmer in North Carolina and in Fauquier County, Virginia
Member of Aztec Club of 1847
1852 – 1867: Vice President of Aztec Club of 1847
Died: December 7, 1877
Place of Death: Charleston, South Carolina
Cause of Death: Paralysis
Age at time of Death: 72 years old
Burial Place: Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland
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