The group, known colloquially as the "Tribe of Jesse" was still quite popular at the onset of the Civil War, by which time they had split into two ensembles, the "Tribe of John" and the "Tribe of Asa"; both ensembles continued to bill themselves as the Hutchinson Family. The Tribe of Asa relocated to the western part of the United States, performing in, among other places, Minnesota and Wisconsin; the Tribe of John stayed primarily in the eastern part of the country, and began to perform in and around the camps of the Union Army with the onset of the war. Judson missed these performances, as he had committed suicide by hanging himself in 1859, in the cellar of John's home known as the Daisy Cottage.