• Full Citation: David Mitchell Hudson, "Civil War Letters of David Mitchell Hudson," ed. Roy Hudson, Indiana Magazine of History 47, no. 2 (June 1951): 191-208.
• Home: Jennings County
• Year: 1864
• Regiment:120th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Co. K
• Abstract: Hudson (1837-1864) wrote several letters to his wife Sarah between March 13 and August 26 before dying of scurvy in a Chattanooga hospital on August 28, 1864. His letters are severley critical about soldier's care in the hospital. He had a particular loathing for cooks, nurses, and doctors who took charity donations of food and clothing intended for soldiers for themselves, ignored patients, got drunk, and played cards.
• Sample Text:
  1. "So I would say to all if you want to help the poor sick soldiers send [supplies] to them your self by express, and don't allow any body else to handle it." (May 6, 1864, p. 201)
  2. "Wo! Wo!! unto the Doctors. Soldiers despise them...Put me in the front under rebel fire rather than in a mean Doctors hands..." (July 22, 1864, p. 205)
• LC Subject Headings:
  1. United States. Army. Indiana Infantry Regiment, 120th (1864-1866)
  2. Chattanooga (Tenn.) History Civil War, 1861-1865.

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