CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  W. G. Huddleston - Cherokee County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, pages 187-188 

W. G. HUDDLESTON.

W. G. Huddleston, of Jacksonville, was born in Ran­dolph county, 
Alabama, March 8, .1843.  He had barely reached his eighteenth year 
when he joined, April 2, 1861, the Confederate States Marine Service
under Capt. R. T. Thorn of Montgomery.  He was stationed at 
Pensacola Navy Yard and participated in the fight on Santa Rosa 
Island, and was in the command of Commodore Ingram in the 
bombardment of the yard.  Being transferred to Norfolk, Virginia, 
he was placed on a receiving ship, and when the Merrimac was launched 
he was assigned to her, remaining on board that noble old ship until 
after the fall of Norfolk, when the boat was, by command of Commodore 
Tatnall, destroyed.  During his service on the Merrimac he was in an 
engagement at Hampton Roads with the Union fleet, the latter 
comprising the Cumberland, Congress, Minnesota and Mopitor.  In the 
fight the first named federal boat was sunk; the Congress burned and 
the Minnesota disabled.  The Mer­rimac was damaged by running into the 
Monitor and retired to the navy yard for repairs.  On her next trip, 
assisted by two wooden vessels, the Jamestown and Patrick Henry, she 
captured two brigs and a schooner loaded with federal stores. After 
the burning of the Merrimac Mr. Huddleston was sta­tioned at Drewry's 
Bluff, below Richmond, remaining there until the beginning of the 
Eleven Days Fight, when his command was ordered to support a battery 
and fought through the engagement with gallantry.  He was in all the 
engagements below Richmond-Seven Pines, South Moun­tain, Malvern Hill, 
Antietam, etc.  He 'vas captured and sent to Wheeling, West Virginia, 
where he was held as a prisoner of war until Gen. Lee's surrender, 
when he re­turned to his home in Montgomery, ,Alabama.  In August, 
1866, he was married there to Miss Ella G. Chase.  Three of their 
children are living.  He lost his wife in 1879, and later was married 
to Miss Selene A. Williams, of Travis county, Texas, and they have 
three boys and three girls.  Mr. Hud­dieston came to Texas in 1872 and 
engaged in farming, and is still so occupied at his plantation in 
Cherokee county, on Rural Route No. 2, a short distance out from 
Jacksonville.