Green Henry Speights

In 1860 he was an unmarried 18 year old farmer living on the J.M. Arnold farm at Milan in Sabine County, TX. Giving his residence as Hickory Flat, AL, he enlisted in Roanoke, AL on 22 February 1862 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 with his company in all their actions to about March 1865, when he deserted to the enemy, was sent to Washington, DC and took an oath to the United States on 10 March 1865. He was furnished transportation to Syracuse, NY with no later military record.

In 1870 he was farming on his recently widowed mother's place at Garden Valley in Smith County, TX but in 1880 he was a farmer on his own place there. By 1900 and to at least 1920 he was a farmer in Robertson County, TX.

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920.

He married Nancy Ann Elizabeth Lott (1849-1883) in 1873 and they had 2 children. He married again, her sister Rebecca Lott (1848-1926) in about 1884.

His brother John was also in Company I.

11/13/1840; Chambers County, AL

02/22/1929; burial in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Franklin, TX