Company K, 9th Virginia Infantry, Steuart's Brigade, Pickett's Division, 1st Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.

Residence Portsmouth VA; 20 years old.
Enlisted on 5/27/1861 at Pinner's Point, Norfolk County, he was mustered into Company K, 9th Virginia Infantry, as a Private.
Present or accounted for on all Rolls through end of war.
Listed as Private on July & Aug and Sept & Oct 1861 Rolls.
Listed as 4th Corporal on Nov & Dec 1861 through March & April 1862 Rolls.
Listed as 5th Sergt on May & June 1862 Roll.
Listed as 3rd Sergt and "Present, Promoted to 1st Sergt Aug. 15, 1862" on July & Aug 1862 Roll.
Listed on Jan & Feb 1863 Roll as "Elected Jr. 2d Lt and promoted to 1 Lieut 28 Feby 1863 ."
Wounded In Action (arm and side) 7/3/1863 in the Battle of Gettysburg, PA.
Signed July & Aug 1863 and all subsequent Rolls as Lieutenant, Commanding Company.
Hospitalized 4/5/1865 in C.S.A. General Hospital, Danville, VA. with acute colitis.
Paroled 4/26/1865 at Danville, VA.

Postwar, living in Portsmouth, VA. he was Assistant to the President of Norfolk-Southern Railroad.

The 9th Virginia Infantry Regiment completed its organization at Portsmouth, Virginia, in July, 1861. Its members were from Portsmouth and the counties of Roanoke, Chesterfield, Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Lunenburg, Dinwiddie, and Norfolk.
Of the regiment's 318 engaged at Gettysburg more than half were disabled.


Col. H.C. Hudgins, former assistant to the President of the Norfolk-Southern Railroad, died recently at his home, in Portsmouth, Va. Colonel Hudgins was born in Mathews County, Va., in 1841, but went to Portsmouth early in life, and had since lived in that city. He entered the service of the Confederate States in May, 1861, as a Private in the Old Dominion Guards, Company K, 9th Virginia Infantry,
Armistead's Brigade, Pickett's Division, Longstreet's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. He was promoted to Corporal, First Sergeant, and First Lieutenant successively. He was wounded in the arm and side at Gettysburg July 3, 1863, but in a few days returned to his company, which he commanded afterwards.
He took part in the battles of Seven Pines, Malvern Hill, Warrenton Springs, Second Manassas, Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Suffolk, Newberne, Cold Harbor, Bermuda Hundred, and numerous engagements around Petersburg before the evacuation. He was with the division at Farmville to intercept the enemy's cavalry. After the surrender of General Lee, he started to join General Johnston in North Carolina, but hearing of his surrender returned to Danville, surrendered to Wright's Army Corps, and was paroled.
He was a member of Stonewall Camp, Confederate Veterans, of which he had been Commander.
At the organization of Company K, which was afterwards known as the Old Dominion Guards, Colonel Hudgins was elected Captain of the company, and served in that capacity for a number of years. Afterwards he was promoted to the regimental staff and was elected Colonel of the 4th Regiment, Virginia Volunteers.
Confederate Veteran , 1913, p. 496.