Unsung Tar Heel's Name To Be Honored

"The first North Carolina soldier to die in the Civil War never heard the whizzing of bullets or the thunder of cannons, and his final steps didn't fall on a bloody battlefield.

Pvt. James M. Hudson died sweating and delirious from pneumonia inside a Raleigh horse stable converted into the state's first military hospital - gone and forgotten before he could so much as stain the knees of his uniform.

But this year, on the 150th anniversary of the war's start, Hudson's service will be honored both in Raleigh's Oakwood Cemetery and his hometown of Charlotte alongside men who died from Union bullets at Gettysburg and in other more dramatic ways."

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Unsung Tar Heel's Name To Be Honored