Isaac Huger (19 March 1743 – 17 October 1797) was a Brigadier-General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
Biography[]
Isaac Huger was born on 19 March 1743 in Limerick plantation, Berkeley County, South Carolina, the son of a wealthy merchant family. Huger fought in the 1761 expedition against the Cherokee and was promoted to colonel of the 1st South Carolina Regiment on 17 June 1775, and in 1779 he was promoted to Brigadier-General. Huger was wounded at the Battle of Stono Ferry on 20 June 1779, and his attempt to relieve the siege of Charleston was defeated at the Battle of Monck's Corner in 1780. Huger became Nathanael Greene's second-in-command after he assumed command of the southern theatre, and he was wounded at the 15 March 1781 Battle of Guilford Court House before fighting at Hobkirk's Hill on 25 April. After the war, he served in the state legislature, and he died in 1797 at the age of 54.