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(1837 - 1863)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted at Anderson in Grimes County, TX as a Private in Company G, 4th Texas Infantry on 10 March 1862 and reported to the regiment on 1 May.
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 mortally wounded at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and captured there. He died of wounds, date not given, and was probably buried on the battlefield.
After the War
He was reinterred in Richmond, among other Confederate Gettysburg casualties, probably in 1872-73.
References & notes
His service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, also as John Green. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Frances Womack (1839-1919) in March 1858 in Grimes County, TX and they had a daughter Jessie (later Ludlow, 1860-1936).
Birth
11/23/1837 in VA
Death
07/1863; Gettysburg, PA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 159 - 161 [AotW citation 1839]
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 26886]