Swepson Whitehead Greening

In 1860 he was a 20 year old druggist in Mansfield in De Soto Parish, LA. He enlisted for one year in Company D, 2nd Louisiana Infantry in New Orleans on 11 May 1861.

He was detailed and left behind to tend the wounded at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, and was made prisoner of war there.

He was paroled at Sharpsburg on 27 September, at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, and exchanged at Aikens Landing, VA on 10 November 1862. On 16 March 1863 he was commissioned Junior 2nd Lieutenant of Company A, De Soto (LA) Militia. It may have been revoked in June 1863.

He returned to Mansfield and briefly worked in a store, then farmed at Red River, LA. From 1869 to at least 1910 he was a farmer in De Soto Parish.

Service information from Booth1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, notably Sadie Greening Sparks and other Greenings [online], source also of his May 1860 photograph, from the US Census of 1860-1910, and from a bio sketch in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana (1890). His gravesite is on Findagrave; thanks to Tom DeNardo for the pointer to that.

He married Rebecca D Bullock (1843-1919) in November 1866 in De Soto Parish, and they had 10 children.

His father John James Greening (1804-1873) had been a student at West Point (1825-), an Alabama legislator (1836-38), a Major in the state militia, and an Alabama judge.

07/26/1839; Dallas County, AL

10/03/1912; Mansfield, LA; burial in Mansfield Cemetery, Mansfield, LA