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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
nces of the State was fitly complemented by his honest, business-like and common-sense administration as governor. By his marriage to Eloise, daughter of Senator A. P. Butler, he had one son, Butler Hagood. The death of General Hagood occurred at Barnwell, January 4, 1898. Major-General Benjamin Huger Major-General Benjamin Huger was born at Charleston in 1806, son of Francis Kinlock Huger, whose wife was a daughter of Gen. Thomas Pinckney. 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; his grandfather, Benjamin Huger, was a famous revolutionary patriot, killed before Charleston during the British occupation; and his great-great-grandfather was Daniel Huger, who fled from France before the revocation of the edict of Nantes and died in South Carolina in 1711. General Huger was graduated at West Point in 1825, with
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
they have five sons: Richard K., James G. R., Arthur H., R Eugene and Julien Diggs. Mr. Wilder is a member of Camp Dick Anderson, U. C. V., at Sumter. William W. Wilkinson William W. Wilkinson, of Charleston, formerly of the Confederate States navy, was born at Charleston in 1844, and in 1859 was appointed to the United StWilliam W. Wilkinson, of Charleston, formerly of the Confederate States navy, was born at Charleston in 1844, and in 1859 was appointed to the United States naval academy. He left Annapolis in December, 1860, upon the secession of his State, and returning to Charleston at once entered the State service. He was upon the staff of Col. J. J. Pettigrew for three or four months at Castle Pinckney and Morris island, and was then assigned to guard duty in Charleston harbor, with the rand rejected, and later sold on her return to France to the Confederate States, the transfer being made in the Bay of Biscay to Capt. T. J. Page, of Virginia and Wilkinson joined her as master, off Bell island. The Stonewall soon sprang a leak, on account of a storm which she encountered thirty-six hours out, and was compelled to