Soldier: Jesse H. Hudson
Regiment: 96th. OVI
Company: C
Age: 21
Date Entering Service: August 11, 1862
Period of Service: 3 Years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Transferred to Company B, Nov. 18, 1864. Mustered out with the company on July 7, 1865 at Mobile, Alabama.
Battles in which he fought:
Arkansas Post, Ark. Jan. 11, 1863
Vicksburg, Miss. May 18-July 4, 1863
Jackson, Miss. July 9-16, 1863
Grand Coteau, La. Nov. 3, 1863
Sabine Cross Roads, La. April 8, 1864
Moneti’s Bluff, La. April 23, 1864
Forts Gains and Morgan, La. Aug. 5-23, 1864
Spanish Fort, Ala. March 26-April 12, 1865
Fort Blakely, Ala. April 9, 1865
Mobile, Ala. March 26-April 12, 1865
Whistler’s Station, Ala. April 13, 1865
Other interesting information discovered:
Jesse Hudson lived in Wilson, NY in 1850. By 1860 he and his family as living in Cardington. In 1910 he was shown to be living on Walnut Street, Cardington. In 1866 he was married to Flora Nichols.
Date of Death: Jan. 6, 1916 Place of burial: Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, OH.
Adopted By: Researcher: Patrick Drouhard
