Edward Macon Hudson, student 1854-1855

After leaving R-MC, Hudson attended the University of Virginia, the University of Berlin,and the University of Heidelberg.  He completed his studies in Heidelberg in 1861 and was secretary of the United States legation in Berlin at the beginning of the war.  He transferred his allegiance and served as the CSA Minister to Prussia until November 1862. He went from Prussia to England to North Carolina, arriving in Wilmington, NC in Feb. 1863. He reported to the the CSA government in Richmond and was commissioned first lieutenant and assigned  in June 1863 to the staff of General Arnold Elzey as Aide de Camp, then transferred to General Jubal Early, and back again to Elzey. He was captain of an artillery company in the Army of Tennessee in 1864. He was paroled in Washington, GA en route to joining General Joseph Johnston.

After the war, he was a prominent attorney in New Orleans, LA. He declined an appointment to the Supreme Court of Louisiana and the ambassadorship to Venezuela, remaining in private law practice. He died in New Orleans September 5, 1916 and is buried in Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans Parish..