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Lieutenant Thomas B. Huger, Confederate States Navy, (18??-1862)

Thomas B. Huger, born in South Carolina, joined the United States Navy as a Midshipman in March 1835. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in February 1848 and continued in the service until his native state seceeded from the Union. Resigning his commission in January 1861, Huger became a First Lieutenant in the Confederate Navy the following March. He commanded a battery on Morris Island, S.C., in 1861 and was appointed as Commanding Officer of the gunboat CSS McRae later in that year. Huger's ship operated in defense of New Orleans and the lower Mississippi. On 24 April 1862, while battling Federal Navy ships near Forts Jackson and Saint Philip, McRae was badly damaged and Lieutenant Huger was mortally wounded. He died the next day .

This page features our only pictures of Lieutenant Thomas B. Huger.


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Photo #: NH 66631

Lieutenant Thomas B. Huger, CSN


Line engraving, published during the 19th Century.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 173KB; 600 x 765 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 48925

Lieutenant Thomas B. Huger, CSN


Line engraving after a photograph by Jacobs, published during the 19th Century.
Lt. Huger was mortally wounded on 24 April 1862, while commanding CSS McRae.

Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Academy Museum; Harbeck Collection, 1938.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 161KB; 495 x 765 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 1875

Lieutenant Thomas Bee Huger, CSN


Copy of a photograph autographed "To my father from his son, T.B. Huger, August 12, 1864". That date is more than two years after Huger's death in action in April 1862.
Note Confederate flag on the ship in the background.

Collection of Colonel Aiken Simons.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 71KB; 560 x 765 pixels

 


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21 May 2000