DEATH OF MAJOR HUSKE
The article on this page was published in the Weekly Standard, a Raleigh, North Carolina
July 30, 1862 Issue: W. W. Holden, Editor. Transcribed by Myrtle Bridges
February 23, 2003
Major Benjamin R. Huske of the 48th N. C. regiment, died in Richmond on the 15th instant, of a wound received
in one of the battles before that City. He was in the 33rd year of his age, and leaves a wife and four children.
Major Huske was a prominent member of the bar in Fayetteville, and was one of our most promising young men.
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