Daughter of William and Marie Hudson
"Civil War nurse. The daughter of a Baptist clergyman she worked as a schoolteacher until becoming an Army nurse. She wrote the words of "Ellsworth Avengers" which was adopted as a regimental song and she was invited to become a "Daughter of the Regiment" by the 44th New York Infantry. She joined as a volunteer nurse and continued at 3rd Brigade Hospital. Her name is engraved at Little Round Top in Gettysburg on a monument dedicated to the NY 44th Regiment." ~Information provided by Patrick Kavanagh in History of Women in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
"Civil War nurse. The daughter of a Baptist clergyman she worked as a schoolteacher until becoming an Army nurse. She wrote the words of "Ellsworth Avengers" which was adopted as a regimental song and she was invited to become a "Daughter of the Regiment" by the 44th New York Infantry. She joined as a volunteer nurse and continued at 3rd Brigade Hospital. Her name is engraved at Little Round Top in Gettysburg on a monument dedicated to the NY 44th Regiment." ~Information provided by Patrick Kavanagh in History of Women in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Daughter of William and Marie Hudson
"Civil War nurse. The daughter of a Baptist clergyman she worked as a schoolteacher until becoming an Army nurse. She wrote the words of "Ellsworth Avengers" which was adopted as a regimental song and she was invited to become a "Daughter of the Regiment" by the 44th New York Infantry. She joined as a volunteer nurse and continued at 3rd Brigade Hospital. Her name is engraved at Little Round Top in Gettysburg on a monument dedicated to the NY 44th Regiment." ~Information provided by Patrick Kavanagh in History of Women in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
"Civil War nurse. The daughter of a Baptist clergyman she worked as a schoolteacher until becoming an Army nurse. She wrote the words of "Ellsworth Avengers" which was adopted as a regimental song and she was invited to become a "Daughter of the Regiment" by the 44th New York Infantry. She joined as a volunteer nurse and continued at 3rd Brigade Hospital. Her name is engraved at Little Round Top in Gettysburg on a monument dedicated to the NY 44th Regiment." ~Information provided by Patrick Kavanagh in History of Women in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
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