Soldier:  Jesse H. Hudson

Regiment:  96^th. 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