Private Philip W. Hudson of Manchester Connecticut enlisted in Infantry Company A of the 1st Connecticut Volunteer Regiment on April 20th, 1861.
Here is a post of a letter he wrote home from Virginia on May 17th, 1861. It provides good details of the regimen of camp life at this time.
Image: Lt. John Henry Styles, Co. A, 14th New York State Militia
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At the age of seventeen he distributed the first issues of the Brooklyn
Eagle to the public. He first joined the 14th in 1846. He was wounded at
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