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Confederate (CSV)

Private

A. G. Green

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 22, he enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company D, 4th Texas Infantry on 4 July 1861. He was slightly wounded by a gunshot at Gaines Mill, VA on 27 June, and was admitted to a hospital in Richmond on the 28th.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September, but not at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to 2nd Corporal by January 1864 and was severely wounded by a gunshot to his left shoulder and back at the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864. He was furloughed for 60 days, but returned to duty. He was captured at Fort Harrison/Deep Bottom near Petersburg, VA on 29 September 1864, was held briefly at Bermuda Hundred, VA, then sent to City Point, VA. He was transferred to Point Lookout, MD on 5 October and was paroled there and sent to Aiken's Landing, VA for exchange on 17 March 1865. There is no later military record.

References & notes

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3.

Birth

c. 1839

Notes

1   Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 154-155  [AotW citation 1733]

2   US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927  [AotW citation 26827]