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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Captain Francis Huger Harleston. (search)
of Captain Francis Huger Harleston, and both as a tribute from a gallant soldier to one of Sumter's heroic defenders, and as the delineation of the character of a fair specimen of the men who wore the gray, it is worthy of preservation.] In April, 1860, seven young gentlemen graduated from this academy: Francis Huger Harleston, A. J. Norris, A. S. Gaillard, William E. Stoney, S. S. Kirby and Frank deCaradeuc. With high hopes and happy hearts they formed their class on commencement day ntonville; Frank Harleston, at Fort Sumter! And if Stoney and Norris are not with their classmates to-day, in the silent bivouac of the gallant dead, it is not because they did not freely offer their lives to their country. Graduating in April, 1860, but a few months elapsed before South Carolina called her sons to arms. Harleston's class promptly answered the summons. The cadets were sent to Morris' Island, and charged with the duty of building a battery facing ship channel, and p