Benjamin Huger (American Revolution)

Benjamin Huger (c. 1746 – 11 May 1779) was one of five Huger brothers from South Carolina who served in the American Revolutionary War. Huger became a close friend of LaFayette, having met him upon his arrival near Georgetown in 1777, and his son Francis Kinloch Huger had a role in getting LaFayette temporarily released from prison at Olomouc in the 1790s.^[1] Huger was killed in an accidental friendly fire incident near Charleston, South Carolina. His grandson was the Confederate General Benjamin Huger.^[2]