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. Horatio Blake Reed, Co. D, 5th U. S. Artillery
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Commissioned May 1861. Left the 5th U. S. Artillery in November 1864 to
join the 22nd N. Y. Cavalry as Lt. Colonel, rising to Colonel U. S. V. in
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