Thomas Henry Green

In 1860 he was a 22 year old farm worker on the widow Mahala Everett's place, next door to the Crawfords, in Jasper County, MS. He and Mahala's son Ben enlisted on 27 April 1861 at Paulding, Jasper County, and mustered as Privates in Company F, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 31 May 1861 in Corinth.

He was wounded in the chest in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 30 September then furloughed home to recover from 19 October to 18 March 1863. He was afterward with his Company through the war and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

In 1870 he was a farmer back in Jasper County, MS, and lived next door to the widow Martha Ann Crawford and her 5 children (3 Crawfords plus two - at least one by Thomas?).

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound also in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists, source also of an excellent post-war photograph, and the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married the widow Martha Ann Craft Crawford (1840-1925) and they had at least 3 children of their own.

1838 in AL

1877; burial in Mulberry Cemetery, Bay Springs, MS