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|branch= |serviceyears= 1825–61 (USA) 1861–65 (CSA) |rank= 35px Major (USA) 35px Brevet Colonel (USA) 35px Brigadier General (Virginia Militia) 35px Major General (CSA) |commands=Department of Norfolk Huger's Division |unit= 3rd U.S. Artillery |battles= Mexican–American War American Civil War |awards= |laterwork= }} Benjamin Huger (November 22, 1805 – December 7, 1877) was a career United States Army ordnance officer who fought with distinction during the Mexican–American War. He also served as a Confederate general officer during the American Civil War, noted for his controversial performances while in charge of Norfolk, Virginia, and during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign. Relieved of field duty, he would spend most of the remainder of the conflict in staff positions in the Trans-Mississippi Department, where he performed well. After the war Huger took up farming in North Carolina and later in Virginia. ==Early life and U.S. Army career== Huger was born in 1805 in Charleston, South Carolina. (He pronounced his name , although today many Charlestonians say .) He was a son of Francis Kinloch Huger〔Rice Hope Plantation Inn site biography of Huger:’ "His father, who was aide-de-camp to General Wilkinson in 1800, and adjutant-general in the war of 1812, suffered imprisonment in Austria for assisting in the liberation of Lafayette from the fortress of Olmutz..."〕 and his wife Harriet Lucas Pinckney, making him a grandson of Maj. Gen. Thomas Pinckney.〔Dupuy, p. 354.〕 His paternal grandfather, also named Benjamin Huger, was a patriot in the American Revolution, killed at Charleston during the British occupation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rice Hope Plantation Inn site biography of Huger )〕 In 1821 Huger entered the United States Military Academy at West Point and graduated four years later, standing eighth out of 37 cadets. On July 1, 1825, he was commissioned a brevet second lieutenant, then promoted to second lieutenant in the 3rd U.S. Artillery on that same date.〔Eicher, ''CW High Commands'', p. 308.〕 He served as a topographical engineer until 1828, when he took a leave of absence from the Army to visit Europe from 1828 to 1830. He then was on recruiting duty, after which he served as part of Fort Trumbull's garrison in New London, Connecticut.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Aztec Club of 1847 site biography of Huger )〕 From 1832 to 1839 Huger commanded the Fortress Monroe arsenal located in Hampton, Virginia.〔 On February 7, 1831, Huger married a cousin named Elizabeth Celestine Pinckney. They would have five children together; Benjamin, Eustis, Francis, Thomas Pinckney and Celestine Pinckney. One of his sons, Francis (Frank) Kinloch Huger, also attended West Point and graduated in 1860. Frank Huger would enter the Confederate forces during the American Civil War as well, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel and leading a battalion of field artillery by the end of the conflict.〔Rice Hope Plantation Inn site biography of Huger; Wakelyn, p. 241, gives a marriage date of February 17, 1831.〕 On May 30, 1832, Huger was transferred to the Army's ordnance department with the rank of captain; he would spend the rest of his U.S. Army career with this branch.〔 From 1839 to 1846 he served as a member of the U.S. Army Ordnance Board, and from 1840 into 1841 he was on official duty in Europe.〔Wakelyn, pp. 241-42; Dupuy, p. 354.〕 Huger again commanded the Fort Monroe Arsenal from 1841 to 1846, until hostilities began with Mexico.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Benjamin Huger (general)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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