Edward H. Green

Birth Date

1837-03-01

Death Date

1893-09-07

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Dearborn County, Indiana, attorney and soldier. Dearborn County, Indiana, native. Son of Stephen Green and Martha J. Green. Married to Sarah Elizabeth Shirley Green in Jefferson County, Indiana, on June 23, 1862. Father of Cora B. Green. Attended Franklin College in Johnson County, Indiana. Read law under Judge Jesse L. Holman and Judge John D. Haynes in Dearborn County. Attorney in Dearborn County in 1860. Served in the 16th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a sergeant from April 23, 1861, to May 23, 1862. Served in the 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and captain, from September 22, 1862, to May 13, 1865. Discharged on account of disability on May 13, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Dearborn County, Aurora, p. 217A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Dearborn County, Aurora, p. 425.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Clark County, Jeffersonville Ward 1, p. 447B.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0108.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482709.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, vol. 4, 1861-1865 (Indianapolis: Samuel M. Douglass, State Printer, 1866), 319.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 286.
U. S. Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, 1861-1904, Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, NARA RG 92, Microfilm Series M1845.
History of Dearborn, Ohio and Switzerland Counties, Indiana (Chicago: Weakley, Harraman & Co., 1885), pp. 733-4.

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