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Tliis engagement won for Iiim the rank of brig- adier-general, and he was placed in coiuniaud of the cavalry division of the trans-Mississippi de- partment. He commanded a brigade of Texas cavalry in Marmadiike's ca\alry division in the Red River campaign, and took part in the en- gagements at Baj-ou St. Patrice, April 7, 18G3, Mansfield (Sabine Cross-Roads), April 8, and in harassing the retreating Federal army. April 8- 13, and he was mortally wounded while firing upon the Federal gunboats from a bluff near Blair's Landing, La., April Vi, and died on Blair's Plantation, April 14, 1864.

GREEN, Thomas Edward, clergyman, was born in Shippensville, Pa., Dec. 27, 1857; son of John M. and Martha M. (McCreary) Green; grandson of Thomas Green, and a descendant of Thomas Green, a Revolutionary soldier in the 3d Virginia line. He was graduated from McKen- dree college, Lebanon, 111., in 1875, and took a post-graduate course at the College of New Jer- sey, and taught school at Alton, 111., 1875-76. He was a student at Princeton theological seminary, 1877-79; was ordained by the Presbytery of Cairo, Feb. 5, 1880, and was pastor at Mt. Carmel, 111., in 1880; stated supply at Effingham, 1880-81; pastor at Sparta, 1881-83, and at the Eighth Pres- byterian church, Chicago, 111., 1883-86. He be- came an Episcopalian in 1886, was ordained deacon, Feb. 2, 1887, and priest, Feb. 23, 1887. He was rector of St. Andrew's church, Chicago, 111., 1887-89. and of Grace church. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, from 1889. He was elected bishop of Iowa in 1898, but declined the office. He received the degree of D.D. from Griswold college, Daven- port, Iowa, in 1890. He was married, April 27, 1830. to Laura E. Johnson of Mt. Carmel, 111. He is the author of: Sei~mons and Addresses (1885) ; T/if? Hill Called Calvaiy (1899) ; and pamphlets and essays.

GREEN, Thomas Jefferson, soldier, was born in Warren county. N.C., Feb. 14, 1802; son of Solomon and Fanny (Hawkins) Green. He at- tended Chapel Hill college and the U.S. military academy. In 1833 he was elected to the general assembly of North Carolina and shortly after was married to Sarah A., daughter of the Hon. Jesse Wliartou of Nashville, Tenn. He then re- moved to a plantation in Florida, where he re- mained till the death of his wife in 1833, having in the meantime represented his county in the Flor- ida legislature. In 1836 he went to Texas, where he was commissioned brigadier-generaland sent back to the United States to raise a brigade, which he did at the expense of his entire fortune. Return- ing with his brigade, he arrived at Velasco after the battle of San .Jacinto and on the day that Santa Anna was released and placed on a war Tassel to be carried to Vera Cruz, General Green,

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believing the release of Santa Anna to be a mis- take, protested, and under the authority of President Burnet, reimprisoned the Mexican. This action was sustained by the government and Santa Anna was consigned to the care of General Green, who treated him as a guest. Subsequently when their positions were reversed General

Green was heavily ironed and ordered to work on the roads, which last he re- fused to do though threatened with

death. Santa Anna, after his release, again began his incur- sions of Texas, and in 1843 General Somer- ville. with a command of about seven him- dred Texans, crossed into Mexico; then under implied executive authority, started homeward before striking a blow. General Green and others refused to return, recrossed the Rio Grande and attacked the town of Mier. After a nineteen hours' fight in which the enemy lost twice the entire force of their assailants, the battle went against the Texans and 261 men and officers were captured and imprisoned in the dungeons of Perots near the city of Mexico. After six montlis' labor in digging through an eight-foot wall of volcanic rock. General Green with fifteen others escaped on July 2, 1843, and he with seven others returned to Texas. Subse- quently he was a representative in the Texas congress, where he uised every effort to secure the release of the men whom he had left in the Mexican dungeons. He also introduced the bill which made the Rio Grande the boundary line between Texas and Mexico, the Nueces having been previously recognized as the line. President Polk based his claims and right to send troops to the mouth of the river in dispute upon this bill, and the Mexican war and the acquisition of Texas, New Mexico and California was the consequence. General Green also demonstrated the feasibility and absolute necessity of a railroad across this territory to the Pacific as a war measure in a memorial to Congress in 1850, and he afterward took an original part in the projection and build- ing of the Southern Pacific railroad. During the pending of negotiations for the annexation of Texas to the United States he was tendered by President Polk the post of confidential agent of the United States, but declined on the ground that he was then a citizen of the other contract- ing power. In 1845 he returned to the United