Benjamin Huger was a regular officer in the United States Army, who served with distinction as chief of ordnance in the Mexican–American War and in the American Civil War, as a Confederate general. He
Major General Benjamin Huger, CSA
West view of Chapultepec in 2006; Huger was in the force that stormed the castle in September 1847.
Modern day Norfolk Naval Shipyard, known as the Gosport Yards early in the American Civil War; Huger was responsible for its protection in 1862.
Albert Gallatin Blanchard was a general in the Confederate army during the American Civil War. He was among the small number of high-ranking Confederates to have been born in the North. He served on t