Francis Kinlock Huger

• Major Benjamin Huger's Son
• Born: Sept 1773
• Died: 14 Feb 1855
• Married Harriot Lucas Pinckney, (m. 14 Jan 1802) daughter of General Thomas Pinckney.
• Children: Elizabeth Pinckney, Ann Isabella, Francis Huger, Thomas Pinckney, Cleland Kinloch, Mary Ester and
• Major General Benjamin Huger
• Cleland Kinloch Huger (m. Mary Dunkin b 19 Oct 1818)

Benjamin's son, Francis Kinloch, patriot, born in Charleston, South Carolina, in September, 1773; died there, 14 February, 1855, was sent to England for his education, and studied under the celebrated Dr. John Hunter. He became a surgeon, and in 1794 was for a short time attached to the medical staff of the English army, then in Flanders. Thence he went to Vienna, where his family associations with the Marquis de Lafayette induced him to join in an attempt to liberate General Lafayette from the Austrian fortress of Olmutz. The rescue was successful, though Lafayette was recaptured near the frontier. Mr. Huger, having given up the horse to his companion, Dr. Eric Bollmann, was arrested near the spot and taken to Olmutz, where he was harshly treated. After an imprisonment of nearly eight months, he was released in 1798, and sent across the frontier. He then returned to America, and was soon afterward commissioned a captain in the United States army. In 1811 he married a daughter of General Thomas Pinckney. At the beginning of the war of 1812 he was made a lieutenant-colonel in the 2d artillery, and placed on the staff of General Pinckney. On 6 April, 1813, he became adjutant-general with the rank of colonel. Subsequently he served in the state legislature.