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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Eli Hudson

(c. 1841 - 1864)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 19 year old student living with his brother Albert and his family, next door to their parents' farm at Holt in Jasper County, MS. He enlisted on 27 April 1861 at Paulding, Jasper County, MS and mustered as a Private in Company F, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 31 May 1861 in Corinth.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the shoulder and hand in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was wounded again, at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864, and "left on battlefield;" He was probably killed or mortally wounded there. There is no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound also in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1841; Wayne County, MS

Death

05/12/1864; Spotsylvania Court House, VA

Notes

1   US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927  [AotW citation 29668]