Confederate Veteran Magazine – May 1925

A TEXAS COMRADE

“Veterans in Texas are all eager to meet comrades from the States.”

The summer of 1861 found Abe Green, a boy of sixteen, at school at Ladigas, Ala. To the boys of the South a slacker meant even more then than it does now, so, just after his seventeenth birthday, Abe ran away from school and, on September 1, 1861, he joined the Confederate army, enlisting with Company C, 5th Alabama Battalion, Archer’s Brigade and was with Heth’s Division of the army in Virginia. Directly after being mustered out, he went to Waco, Tex. A few years later he engaged in the then prosperous and popular “cattle business.” Buying a ranch in Hood County, he made his home at Thorp Spring, where he still resides. Out there he has had little opportunity to meet men from the 5th Alabama Battalion, so he is eagerly looking forward to the coming reunion at Dallas in May and hoping he may meet some comrades who fought beside him in the battles of Richmond, Cedar Run, Second Manassas, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, in all of which he saw active service. While at the reunion, Comrade Green will be with his daughter, Mrs. Hiram F. Lively, 5101 Reiger Avenue, Dallas, Tex.

A.P. Green was born in 1844 and passed away in 1928. He was buried with his family in Granbury Cemetery in Hood County, Texas.

~ Web Page by Virginia Hale ~

Confederate Veteran Magazine – May 1925

A TEXAS COMRADE

2002 HOOD COUNTY TEXAS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY