Orderly Book of Captain Huger's Company : military records, 1800-1801.

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Orderly Book of Captain Huger's Company : military records, 1800-1801.

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Volume containing military records includes descriptions of duties to be performed by various officers, orders, and court martial cases heard for Captain Huger's Company of the Second Regiment of Artillery and Engineers. Among the duties specified for the adjunct is keeping the orderly book of the garrison. Orders relate to dress at parades, military police, and barracks conduct. The volume also contains copies of orders from Major T.H. Cushing at headquarters in Washington (D.C.) and from Major Decius Wadsworth, commander of the Second Regiment of Artillery and Engineers stationed at Fort Jay. Court martial proceedings contain information about specific cases as well as their outcomes. References are made to events and activities at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina.

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Wadsworth, Decius, d. 1821.

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Cushing, Thomas H. (Thomas Humphrey), 1755-1822

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Born ca. 1747 in Massachusetts; a career soldier, rising to the rank of Captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolution; settled in the 1790's in the Mississippi Territory, created in 1798; appointed General Wilkinson's replacement as head of the military department of the Territory form July 1799 to May 1800; continued to serve as Colonel in the U.S. Infantry; discharged in 1815; died 1822. From the description of Letterbook, 1799-1800. (University of Southern Mississ...

Huger, Francis Kinloch, 1773-1855

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Francis Kinloch Huger was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in September, 1773, and died there in 1855. At the age of eight, he was sent to study in England, remaining abroad until he had finished his education and medical studies. He continued his medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and received his M.D. He returned to South Carolina and became a planter in Santee rather than practicing medicine. He served in the War of 1812 and after that served in the South Car...

United States. Army. Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers, 2nd. Captain Huger's Company.

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Captain Huger's Company of the Second Regiment of Artillery and Engineers was stationed at the second Fort Moultrie (completed in 1798) in May 1799. In March 1800 the unit was transferred to Fort Jay, New York, although units of the Second Regiment were garrisoned at Fort Moultrie until some time in 1804. Francis Kinloch Huger (1771-1855), a Charleston (S.C.) resident, served as a captain of the company from 1799 until 1801. Huger had studied medicine, but abandoned the medical field to become a...

United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...