JUDE WELDON -- 118th INFANTRYIN HOSPITAL SEVERAL TIMES - Jude Weldon had one child born before the war, on child while he was in the 118th Infantry and another who was born after the war. Jude, who can be found under the name Weldon and Welden, was born in Mooers, to Stephen Welden and Polly Blackman in March 1832, making him a little older than the average Civil War Soldier.Leaving his wife, Elizabeth McGovern and his first child at home, he took the train from Mooers to Plattsburgh to muster with the regiment on August 29, 1861. Thirty-three men from the Mooers area enlisted that August and most were assigned to Company I, led by Captain Henry Ransom.Jude participated in all the adventures and engagements of the 118th until June 1863, when they were camped at Suffolk, VA. The regiment left him there and the next summer, they sent him to the Corps Hospital. He recovered and then made the muster of February 1865, while they were in camp near Richmond.On April 3, 1865, the 118th entered Richmond and then camped across the James River at Manchester. Jude became ill again and was sent to the Balfour Army Hospital in Portsmouth, VA. By order of the War Department, he was mustered out on June 13, 1865, and came home.He farmed in the Mooers area for the next few years until his wife died in 1881. Two years after Elizabeth's death, he married a widow, Christina Bogardus Vandenbergh and they lived in Keene is Essex County. When he died in 1906, he was buried in the Pratt Cemetery there.
