Image is of Lieutenant George M. Hudson of Companies F & H of the 32^nd Mass. Infantry. Hudson is shown seated at a table on which rests his slouch hat with a 5^th Corps badge sewn to the side facing the camera. The Lieutenant is wearing a dark officer’s frock coat with 2^nd Lieutenant shoulder straps and matching dark trousers with thin, light leg stripe. Hudson is seated in a high-backed chair with one arm resting on the table next to his hat. He is posed in front of a painted backdrop that looks to be of a wooded lakeside. Image is clear & clean with great contrast. Reverse has photographers imprint of G.C. WHITE… BOSTON and collector ID. The ID is confirmed by another on-line image.

George Martin Hudson was born in Hingham, Mass. on March 29, 1829. He enlisted as a Private in Co. F, 32^nd Mass. on February 19, 1862. He made Sergeant less than a month later on March 1^st and on November 15^th he was promoted to 1^st Sergeant. Just before 1862 ended Hudson received his commission as 2^nd Lieutenant on December 29^th. Not long after the Battle of Gettysburg on September 29, 1863 Hudson was promoted to 1^st Lieutenant and transferred to Co. H. He was wounded in action at Laurel Hill during the Spotsylvania Campaign on May 12, 1864. His wound was severe being hit in both legs. He was hospitalized at Douglas Hospital in Washington, D.C. on May 15^th. He was discharged because of his wounds at Boston, Mass. on February 15, 1865. After the war he was a member of the F. P. H. Rogers Post #29 of the GAR in Waltham, Mass. He died in Hingham, Mass. in 1915 and is buried in Hingham Cemetery.

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