Green Berry Bennett

In 1860 he was a married 22 year old farmer at Rockdale in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted at Arbacoochee, AL as 3rd Sergeant of Company I, 44th Alabama Infantry on 24 April 1862.

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

By 1870 he was back in Gwinnett County, GA, a farm worker at Yellow River near Lawrenceville. In 1880 he was a farmer in Cobb County, GA but by 1900 and to at least 1910 was farming at Lawrenceville again. He was retired there in 1920.

His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862, as mortally wounded. Personal details from family genealogists, also as Greenberry Benedict Bennett, and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of a superb post-war photograph.

He married Mary Ann Jacobs (1833-1891) and they had 6 children between 1858 and 1870. He married again, Susannah/Sarah Amanda Jennings (1856-1933) in February 1892 and they had a daughter Minnie Belle.

04/09/1838; Gwinnett County, GA

11/06/1922; Gwinnett County, GA; burial in New Hope Methodist Cemetery, Lawrenceville, GA