| Summary: | (Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general.) Graduated from West Point, 1825; Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in April 1861. Appointed as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army in June 1861 and promoted to major general in October 1861. Major campaigns and battles include the defense of Norfolk and the Peninsular campaign. Removed from field command due to his ineptness, Huger spent the remainder of the war as the inspector of artillery and ordnance for the Confederate Army. After the war Huger returned to Charleston, South Carolina, where he died in December 1877; he is buried in Baltimore, Maryland. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 3. National Historical Society, 1991.
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