Green Allen Gann

In 1860 he was a 24 year old farm hand living with his parents and sister Martha on their small farm in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted at Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware until 14 June 1865 when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

In 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Wedowee, Randolph County, AL. By 1900 and to at least 1920, then 78 years old, he was farming at Sulphur Springs in DeKalb County, AL.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900, 1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph contributed by Karen Winters.

He married Martha Ann Stallings (1845-1922) and they had 11 children between 1866 and 1888.

01/12/1836; LaFayette, GA

03/22/1928; Sulphur Springs, AL; burial in Fuller Cemetery, Ider, AL