The Split History of the Battle of Fort Sumter by Steven Otfinoski

Author:Steven Otfinoski [Otfinoski, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: nonfiction; Compass Point Books; Perspectives Flip Books: Famous Battles; juvenile nonfiction; JNF025130; History/Military & Wars; JNF025270; History/United States/Civil War Period (1850-1877); JNF038100; People & Places/United States/General; Abraham Lincoln; Jefferson Davis; Union; Confederate States of America; Fort Sumter; battles of the Civil War; slavery; Charleston; South Carolina; Robert Anderson; Fort Moultrie; P.G.T. Beauregard; Abner Doubleday; Crittenden Compromise; 9780756556891; 9780756556938; 9780756556976; 9780756557010
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2018-02-21T00:00:00+00:00

BENJAMIN HUGER

Benjamin Huger (1805–1877) had the military in his blood. Both of his grandfathers had served during the Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and one had been killed defending Charleston from the British. Huger graduated from the military academy at West Point and served courageously in the Mexican-American War (1846–1848).

After the battle of Fort Sumter, he reluctantly resigned from the U.S. Army and joined the Confederate cause where he served throughout the war and was promoted to major general.

After the war Huger became a farmer and lived in North Carolina and then Virginia. He returned to Charleston and died there in December 1877. The U.S. Army honored him by naming a new construction after him, “Battery Huger,” which was built inside the walls of Fort Sumter. The battery was built as part of the preparations for the Spanish-American War (1898).

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