CHAS. R HUDSON, ARTIST AND SOLDIER. 



\Y. T. HORNADAY. 



It is not often that an artist exchanges 

 palette and brush for sword and six 1 

 shooter, and when " Charlie " Hudson, 



" The mildest mannered man 

 Who ever scuttled ship or cuta throat.'' 



informed me that he had long held a com- 

 mission as Captain in the National Guard, 

 and was going to Cuba to fight Spaniards, 

 I was paralyzed with astonishment. I had 

 often remarked on the fine, soldierly erect- 

 ness of his figure, but never dreamed for a 

 moment he had acquired any of it on the 

 drill ground of Washington's crack bri- 

 gade. A little later came the shuffle and 

 the new deal for the National Guard, from 

 which Colonel Harris's regiment emerged 

 as the First District of Columbia Volun- 

 teers, and started for Cuba as quickly as it 

 could get permission to go. 



LIEUT. CHAS. B. HUDSON, FIRST D. C 

 INFANTRY. 



The regiment reached the center of the 

 line of battle before Santiago on the last 

 day of the fighting, but in ample time to 

 receive its baptism of fire. When the sur- 

 render was finally consummated, the ques- 



tion next in importance was self-preserva- 

 tion from the fevers bred by bad water, 

 sweltering heat, and by sleeping on the 

 ground. Hudson was appointed Battalion 

 Adjutant, and served as such to the end of 

 the campaign. For six long weeks the 

 regiment lay in camp before Santiago, and 

 so successfully did it fight off the fever that 

 only two men died from it while in Cuba, 



MEDAL AWARDED TO CAPTAIN' 



HUDSON BY THE NORWEGIAN 



GOVERNMENT. 



although over 20 have died since reaching 

 home, and Captain Hudson has been ill 

 with fever almost continuously. 



Some of our artists work as " illustra- 

 tors," because high class drawings in black 

 and white, for book and magazine illustra- 



REVERSE < >F SAME. 



(ions, are more in demand than " picture-." 

 Captain Hudson is an illustrator by prefer- 

 ence, because he thoroughly enjoys that 

 line of work. The most remarkable thing 



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