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: Capt. Richard Irving Dodge, Co. G, 8th U. S. Infantry, U. S.
Infantry Battalion
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USMA class of 1848. North Carolinian. His grandmother was sister of
Washington Irving, his grandfather a soldier of the Revolution and
Brigadier General. P...
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