Greene, Ranney
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 31, credited to Randolph, VT Unit(s): Crescent City Regiment Service: 2LT, Co. F, Crescent Regiment of New Orleans Volunteers (C.S.A.), 1862; wdd, Corinth, 5/18/62, pr CAPT, 10/27/62, Staff of Lieutenant-General E. Kirby Smith, as AAG, Conscript Bureau, Trans-Mississippi Department, 1863-65. [College: Dartmouth '54] See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 03/28/1831, Randolph, VT Death: 07/17/1880 Burial: Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, TX Marker/Plot: Gravestone photographer: Paula Sellman Findagrave Memorial #: 13896471 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Not Found Portrait?: Unknown College?: Dartmouth '54 Veterans Home?: Not Found (If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war) Remarks: None DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
BURIAL: Copyright notice   Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, TX Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there. |
Biography
28, Greene, Ranney, son of Ranney and Parnella (Kelsey) Greene, was born in Randolph, Vt., 1831, March 28. Randolph, Royalton, and Kimball Union Academies. Teacher, Franklin, La., 1855; professor of languages, Jefferson College, Washington, Miss., 1856-9; at same time studied law, and was admitted to the bar at Nachez, in ship-chandlery, business, New Orleans, 1859-62; in the Confederate Army, during the war, lieutenant and captain in the Crescent regiment; was in the battle of Shiloh, and siege of Corinth, and in several other engagements; in 1863-4, was on staff duty, in the Conscript Bureau west of the Mississippi and in Texas. After the war, settled in Houston, Texas, and, from 1867, was secretary of the Houston Direct Navigation Company.
Married, 1877, April 4, Caroline Minerva Evans, of Houston, died at Sedalia, Mo., of consumption, 1880, July 17.
Green was a modest, scholarly, and brave man, ranking high in his class. He was sure to hear the call of duty and to obey it. The Houston Telegram closed a notice of his death, thus: "He shrank from ostentation. In his death the poor have indeed lost a friend. He was one of those who go through life quietly doing good, and serving their Master for the Master's sake, seeking no laudation save the plaudits of an approving conscience, and looking foward to another, a better, and a high sphere for his reward."
Source: Hazen, Henry A., and S. Lewis B. Spears, editors, A History of the Class of 1854 in Dartmouth College, including Col. Haskell's narrative of the Battle of Gettysburg. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers, 1898, pp. 29-30.