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From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette, Wisconsin, publ. 1901- page 421
HENRY HUDSON. The subject of these lines, a well-known citizen of Beetown township, Grant county, is a veteran of the Civil war. Mr. HUDSON is a native of Grant county, where he was born in 1843, a son of Hiram and Dorcas HUDSON. The family migrated from Pennsylvania to Grant county in 1837, being the earliest pioneers of Beetown. The father of our subject died April 23, 1870, the mother in June, 1894.
The war record of Mr. HUDSON is a very entertaining one. He enlisted in August, 1861, in Company H, 7th Wis. V.I., which regiment, it will be remembered, was a part of the famous "Iron Brigade," a brigade which, for the number of battles in which it was engaged and the efficiency of its service, stands in the front rank of the many gallant organizations of which the Union army had reason to feel proud. After his full term of three years' service had expired our subject was honorably discharged, on Sept. 2, 1864. The "Iron Brigade" was the one to first cross the river and attack the enemy in the gallant but unsuccessful effort of the army of Gen. Burnside to dislodge the enemy at Fredericksburg. In the battle which followed our subject was wounded in the right temple, which confined him to the hospital for some five months, but as soon as able he rejoined his comrades in the field, and continued with them until his discharge. Charles HUDSON, a brother of our subject, was a member of Company D, 33d, Wisconsin Regiment. After the close of the war our subject returned to his peaceful home, taking up again the occupations of other days among his old neighbors and friends.
The first marriage of Mr. HUDSON was to Miss Alice TAYLOR, who died April 21, 1867. His second marriage was to Miss Sarah FOX, a native of Cattaraugus county, N.Y., and he is the father of six daughters, one by the first marriage, five by the last.
This biography generously submitted by Carol Holmbeck