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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Thomas Hudson

(1829 - 1886)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 32 year old farmhand living on the W H Biggs place at Howard in Parke County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company A, 14th Indiana Infantry. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot in the leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 27 September and returned to duty from the hospital on 27 January 1863. He transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps on 20 October 1863.

After the War

In 1870 he was a (lumber?) manufacturer at Sylvania in Parke County living with much older Hudsons (relatives?) and 4 siblings, but by 1880 was a farmer in Independence, KS.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Polly Ann Parker (1830-1858) in December 1848 and they had 3 sons.

Birth

12/07/1829; Pulaski County, KY

Death

01/13/1886; Independence, KS; burial in Pratt Cemetery, Montgomery County, KS

Notes

1 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, p. 274 [AotW citation 33416]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #4.742 [AotW citation 33417]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 256 [AotW citation 33418]

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