In 1867, there were 34 military recruiting stations in the county Abauj in Hungary. In 1869, Jablonca had nearly 18 soldiers in it's meager population. The 1869 Hungarian census lists the soldiers that served Independent Hungary in the "absence" or "notes" columns at the end of each individual information row. Sometimes the family's soldier was listed as "away"; sometimes they were listed as a retired or as a "home guard" soldier. In the 1869 census of Jablonca, the enumerator listed the soldiers as "HONVED". The word "honvéd" means "the soldier who save our country". As in HON = homeland and VÉD = save. They did not list ranks or where they were stationed. This is where brushing up on Hungarian history comes handy.
This is a great link for doing research of your military relatives in old Hungary at http://www.iabsi.com/gen/public/ahm.html#_edn7
This is an example of a large family in Jablonca with their young unmarried son away on military absence. I goggled war histories in that time period and the dual monarchy of Hungary-Austria began in 1867 so this young József Kovács must have been conscripted to do some duty away for the Hapsburgs Rulers.
|County||District||Town||House No.||Family No.||Indiv. No.||Surname||Name||M||F||Birthyear||Rel.||Status||Occupation||work||Birthplace||Native or Foreigner||absence||Literacy||Notes|
|Abauj||Torna||Jabloncza||KOVACS||Josef||M||1858||REF||Single||Jablonca||Native||Military Away||no info||Soldier|