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Dr. Robert Hubbard, Surgeon of the 17th<\/sup> Connecticut and medical inspector of the Eleventh Corps, was in charge of evacuating the wounded men at the George Spangler Farm out of Gettysburg by rail to hospitals all over the east coast.\u00a0 Hubbard was a prominent physician in Bridgeport, Connecticut before and after the war and knew many of the families in Fairfield County.\u00a0 With a name like Theophilus Judd on a short list of wounded Confederate prisoners at Spangler farm it\u2019s interesting to speculate whether the good doctor recognized his name.<\/p>\n Judd was transported to Baltimore by rail on July 21, 1863, and admitted to Ward H, USA General Hospital West\u2019s Building Baltimore, MD along with other wounded Confederate prisoners.\u00a0 Ten days later on August 31, 1863, his carded medical record from West Hospital stated that Theophilus Judd, Company C, 2nd<\/sup> Georgia Battalion, swore the oath of allegiance to the United States.\u00a0 The card describes Judd\u2019s complexion as light, his hair sandy, his eyes hazel, and his height 5 foot 8 inches.\u00a0 The remarks section on the card detailed that Judd, \u201cWas born in Connecticut and has always been a Union man.\u00a0 Was living in Georgia about five years before the war broke out and did belong to a company of militia in time of peace.\u00a0 When the war broke out he was compelled to enlist with said company for nine months and before that time expired he was conscripted and compelled to remain in the rebel service.\u00a0 He will rather loose his property in Macon City Georgia than fight any longer against his country. \u00a0Wishes to remain in Connecticut where his mother and other relatives are living.\u201d <\/em>On September 1, 1863, having sworn the oath of allegiance to the United States of America, Theophilus Judd\u2019s service to the Confederacy was over.\u00a0 He was released and made his way home to Bridgeport, Connecticut.<\/p>\n How does a Connecticut Yankee wind up in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia in 1861 fighting for the Confederacy?\u00a0 We may never know.\u00a0 The statement Judd gave upon his oath may offer some plausible explanation, however, some of his claims seem suspicious when compared with existing records.\u00a0 There is no doubt that Theophilus Judd was born in Fairfield County, Connecticut.\u00a0 His father was Lewis M. Judd, a cooper, and his mother was Maria Todd Judd.\u00a0 In the 1850 census, Theophilus was listed as 12 years old, living with his mother\u2019s brother, his uncle and aunt, in Stratford, Connecticut and attending school.<\/p>\n In the statement Judd gave when he swore his oath of allegiance, he claimed he had been living in Georgia about five years before the war broke out.\u00a0 However, the 1860 census for New Haven, Connecticut lists him as living in a boarding house in that city and working as a carpenter\/stair maker, an occupation he would practice throughout his life.\u00a0 No record of anyone named Judd could be located in the Macon, Bibb County property records or census for 1860.<\/p>\n Without a doubt, on May 17, 1861, Judd enlisted with other men from Macon, Bibb County, Georgia in Company C, known as the Floyd Rifles, 2nd<\/sup> Battalion, Georgia Volunteer Infantry. The Floyd Judd\u2019s claim that \u201che will rather lose his property in Macon City Georgia than fight any longer against his country<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 cannot be verified through existing census and property records. \u00a0If he did own property in Georgia before the war, he probably never owned property again after his return to Connecticut. He was back in Connecticut for less than a year before Theophilus and Addie Hurd married in Bridgeport on August 3, 1864.\u00a0 During his marriage, and after his wife\u2019s death in 1871, census records and city directories list his address as changing almost every year, from rents to boarding houses until his death.<\/p>\n The Bridgeport Evening Farmer<\/em> reported that Theophilus Judd died at Bridgeport Hospital on May 11, 1910, after a long illness.\u00a0 He never remarried after his wife passed in 1871. \u00a0He was survived by their four daughters and lived with his youngest, Lena Judd Newcomb, and her husband, in his last years.\u00a0 His obituary listed him as a stair builder by trade and noted that he was well known throughout the city.\u00a0 How well known was he?\u00a0 Was it common knowledge he had fought for the Confederacy at Gettysburg? His Confederate service certainly did not alienate him from his family.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0His older sister named her first son, born in 1862, for her brother while he was in the Confederate army.\u00a0 When his mother passed away in 1899 at 101, the oldest resident of Fairfield County, articles about her were printed in many of the local papers and all of them acknowledged her three living children, including Theophilus Judd.\u00a0 Of course, none of the articles mentioned he had been a Confederate soldier.\u00a0 \u00a0But was his service kept secret or was it well known?\u00a0 Of course, most of his male contemporaries were Union veterans.\u00a0 The 17th<\/sup> Connecticut, the Fairfield County Regiment, had fought at Gettysburg and many of the men and families were well known to Judd, and his family, as he was to them.<\/p>\n On May 13, 1910, two days after his death, Theophilus Judd, was interred next to his wife with her family in their plot at Lakeview Cemetery in Bridgeport, Connecticut.\u00a0 The plot was a crowded one when he was interred with eight family members resting there.\u00a0 The marker was an imposing obelisk with his in-laws\u2019 Isaac and Cornelia Hurd\u2019s inscriptions on the front.\u00a0 Addie Hurd Judd, Theophilus\u2019s wife\u2019s inscription was on the left side of the stone.\u00a0 When Wayne Motts told me about this Connecticut Confederate and he told me that Judd was interred in Lawn Cemetery, I thought I knew where to find him.\u00a0 I went to the cemetery on a beautiful, sunny, early September day and wandered.\u00a0 Two workers spotted me and asked if I needed help.\u00a0 I explained I was looking for a large obelisk on Avenue C, Lot 34.\u00a0 They told me that it had toppled down in a storm and took me to it.\u00a0 Addie\u2019s inscription on the base was faded but readable, Addie Hurd, Wife of Theophilus Judd, Died April 26, 1871, Age 26<\/em>.\u00a0 \u00a0The huge granite obelisk top had collapsed onto other markers on the right.\u00a0 The other stones in the plot were not really in any order but through the lichen and grime I spotted one marked 17th<\/sup> Connecticut.\u00a0 The cemetery workers were amazed I could read it. They offered to clean the marker and bring me the cemetery plot card.\u00a0 As the stone was sprayed and the worn inscription became more visible, it read: Civil War, George Hurd, Co. G, 17th<\/sup> C.V.I. <\/em>Theophilus Judd, Company C, 2nd<\/sup> Gorgia Battalion, and George Hurd were brothers-in-law.\u00a0 Both served at Gettysburg, on opposing sides.\u00a0 Connecticut Yankee and Connecticut Rebel.\u00a0 Perhaps this is the story of the Civil War, brother against brother.\u00a0 Now together forever, both men are interred in the same family cemetery plot along with a third brother-in-law, Benjamin Watrous, Company D, 29th<\/sup> Michigan.\u00a0 A fourth brother-in-law, Edwin A. Hurd, interred elsewhere, also served in the 17th<\/sup> Connecticut as a commissary sergeant, and a fifth brother-in-law, William Henry Boughton, served in Company I, 6th<\/sup> Connecticut.\u00a0 May peace be with all of them.<\/p>\n I would like to thank Wayne Motts, CEO and President of the Gettysburg Foundation, for identifying Theophilus Judd, a Connecticut Confederate, and for motivating me to write this Grass Roots History article for the Bridgeport History Center.\u00a0 As always, the stories of people from Bridgeport and Connecticut intrigue and fascinate me. The Civil War has many lessons for us as 21st<\/sup> century Americans. The past speaks to us with many voices.\u00a0 May we pay attention and remember and learn.\u00a0 \u2013 Carolyn Ivanoff, author, <\/em>We Fought at Gettysburg<\/u>.<\/em><\/p>\n Selected Bibliography<\/u>:<\/strong><\/p>\n Bridgeport History Center newspapers on microfilm By Carolyn Ivanoff After the Battle of Gettysburg wounded Confederate prisoners were transported and detained in West U.S. Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.\u00a0 On August 31, 1863, one of these prisoners swore the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America and was released, free to return to his home in Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut. 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Rifles were a militia group in Bibb County.\u00a0 In the antebellum era young men, north and south, readily joined militia groups with their friends and neighbors.\u00a0 These groups served as social and community associations.\u00a0 After Fort Sumpter, these militia organizations supplied the first volunteers for military service. \u00a0Except for a period from August 10 to October 20, 1862, when he was hospitalized at Petersburg for febrile typhoid, Theophilus Judd was present for duty from the time of his enlistment in May 1861 until he was wounded at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863.\u00a0 He must have done his duty well because his Compiled Military Service Record from the Confederate Army lists him as receiving a promotion to corporal in January 1862. (Fold3) From the records it appears he did his duty and campaigned with Company C, 2nd<\/sup> Georgia Battalion until he was wounded and captured at Gettysburg. \u00a0Despite Judd\u2019s claim that, \u201che was conscripted and compelled to remain in the rebel service.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>There is no indication he was coerced in any way as a rebel soldier, except the probability that his one year volunteer enlistment (or nine months as he stated) was altered to continue for the duration of the war.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/final-500x147.jpg\")
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