Edward and John Hudson were brothers, teachers, and Presbyterian ministers who came to Texas from Arkansas in 1856, lived and worked in this county, and were later buried in Round Rock Cemetery. During the Civil War, Edward Hudson joined Company G, 6th Regiment, Confederate army, in March 1862, was wounded in the Battle of Corinth in October 1862, and afterward became chaplain to replace a man killed in that battle. In August 1864, while on duty in Georgia, he was shot and critically wounded; though crippled, he preached and taught in various Texas counties until shortly before his death on August 17, 1877. John Hudson enlisted in Company H, 19th Texas Cavalry, in April 1862 and, after being commissioned in March 1863, served as chaplain for the rest of the war. After many years of preaching here, he died on February 22, 1914. Chaplains, who received the same pay and rations as privates, conducted religious services, taught men to read and write, offered counseling, visited the sick, handled the mail, wrote letters and read to illiterates, removed dead and wounded from battlefields, and performed baptisms and funerals. The Hudsons may have been the only Texas brothers enrolled in this Confederate service.