397. BENJAMIN HUGER PAPERS
ca. 600 items, ca. 1830-70
microfilm (M-2277-79)
Correspondence of this career army
officer from South Carolina who served in the
Mexican War and the Civil War. There is practically no material on blacks,
but an October 10, 1837, letter from a
friend of Huger, Captain
Gait, who was serving in the Indian wars in Florida, mentions that a number of black slaves had surrendered
to the post in St. Augustine. He thought that the
slaves were let loose by the Indians because of a food shortage.
(Acc.
9942)
