Postbellum
After the war, Huger was a farmer in North Carolina and then in Fauquier County, Virginia, finally returning in poor health to his home in Charleston, South Carolina. He was also a member of Aztec Club of 1847, a social club formed just after the Mexican-American War by army officers. Huger served as its vice president from 1852 to 1867. He died in Charleston in late 1877 and was buried at Green Mount Cemetery located in Baltimore, Maryland.
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