George Washington Greene

He moved with his family from New York to Muncietown, IN in 1830 when he was about 1 year old. By 1861 he was a tailor in his own shop in Muncie and he was commissioned First Lieutenant, Company E, 19th Indiana Infantry on 29 July 1861.

He was with his Company in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to Captain on 5 April 1863 and was captured in action at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and was held at Libby Prison, Richmond, VA. He was among a group of 109 officers who tunnelled out of Libby in February 1864 and escaped, but he was recaptured. He was then in prisons at Danville, VA, Macon, GA and Columbia, SC. He was paroled, date not given, and mustered out of service on 12 March 1865.

He was elected Delaware County Clerk from 1866-1875 and afterward managed his farm near Muncie.

Service information from the Adjutant General.1 His presence at Antietam from a 29 September 1862 letter he wrote the wife (soon widow) of Private Joshua Jones of his Company. Personal details from a sketch in Haimbaugh's History of Delaware County Indiana (1924), transcribed online by Phil Harris. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a CDV in the collection of the Indiana State Library.

10/06/1829; White Hall, NY

06/30/1887; Muncie, IN; burial in Beech Grove Cemetery, Muncie, IN