My 3rd Great Uncle

[timberjack86]

• Green J Lowe
  
  Age: 21
  
  Rank Entering the Service: Private
  
  Rank Leaving the Service: Private
  
  Military Unit: 25th Infantry Regiment
  
  Alternate Name for the Military Unit:
  
  Company: E
  Enlistment Date: 25 JUL 1861
  Place of Enlistment: Tullahoma, TN
  Abstract of Information available in the Service Records:
  Prisoner of War: Captured 3 Jan 1863 at Murfreesboro, TN; Paroled at Louisville, Ky 4 Apr 1863 and delivered at City Point, VA
  Prisoner of War: Paroled at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, MD May 10, 1863
  Jan 12, 1863: Wounded and in the Hospital; Wounded at Murfreesboro Dec 30, 1862
  May 14, 1863: Appears on a Register of Episcopal Church Hospital, Williamsburg, VA
  Aug 5, 1863: Exchanged as prisoner of war and rejoined his command
  April 6, 1864: Present on extra duty as Teamster
  Mar & Apr 1864: Extra duty; Teamster, detailed by Special Order No. 56 date Hdqts Johnson's Brigade, Mary 19, 1864
  Jan 9, 1865: Appears on a Register of Receiving and Wayside Hospital or General Hospital No. 9 Richmond, VA (Gunshot wound to left wrist)
  Paroled at Appomatox Court House April 9, 1865
  
  Personal Information about the Veteran (Not contained in the CMSR):
  Full Name: Green Jefferson Lowe
  Occupation: Minister of the Gospel
  Born: 1834 in Bledsoe County, TN
  Death: 28 MAY 1920 in Hill County, TX
  Buried: Cottonwood Cemetery, Hill County, TX
  Wives: 1) Jane Price married: 28 DEC 1866 in White County, TN
  2) Mary Elizabeth Hines married Nov 24, 1885
  
  Mary applied for a Confederate Widow's pension from the state of TX: #36841
  
  
  

 

[turner ashby kidd]

Thanks for sharing his interesting story of surviving the war and later photograph.
Enjoy seeing pictures of older men when reading events from their younger days.

 

[lupaglupa]

Interesting that he was from the Pikeville area but enlisted at Tullahoma so early in the War. I wonder if he worked on the railroad.

 

[UCVRelics]

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• Green J Lowe
  
  Age: 21
  
  Rank Entering the Service: Private
  
  Rank Leaving the Service: Private
  
  Military Unit: 25th Infantry Regiment
  
  Alternate Name for the Military Unit:
  
  Company: E
  Enlistment Date: 25 JUL 1861
  Place of Enlistment: Tullahoma, TN
  Abstract of Information available in the Service Records:
  Prisoner of War: Captured 3 Jan 1863 at Murfreesboro, TN; Paroled at Louisville, Ky 4 Apr 1863 and delivered at City Point, VA
  Prisoner of War: Paroled at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, MD May 10, 1863
  Jan 12, 1863: Wounded and in the Hospital; Wounded at Murfreesboro Dec 30, 1862
  May 14, 1863: Appears on a Register of Episcopal Church Hospital, Williamsburg, VA
  Aug 5, 1863: Exchanged as prisoner of war and rejoined his command
  April 6, 1864: Present on extra duty as Teamster
  Mar & Apr 1864: Extra duty; Teamster, detailed by Special Order No. 56 date Hdqts Johnson's Brigade, Mary 19, 1864
  Jan 9, 1865: Appears on a Register of Receiving and Wayside Hospital or General Hospital No. 9 Richmond, VA (Gunshot wound to left wrist)
  Paroled at Appomatox Court House April 9, 1865
  
  Personal Information about the Veteran (Not contained in the CMSR):
  Full Name: Green Jefferson Lowe
  Occupation: Minister of the Gospel
  Born: 1834 in Bledsoe County, TN
  Death: 28 MAY 1920 in Hill County, TX
  Buried: Cottonwood Cemetery, Hill County, TX
  Wives: 1) Jane Price married: 28 DEC 1866 in White County, TN
  2) Mary Elizabeth Hines married Nov 24, 1885
  
  Mary applied for a Confederate Widow's pension from the state of TX: #36841
  
  

Love the photo. Hopefully the pdf of his records will give you more insight.

 

[timberjack86]

I've got a lot more info on his family. He had brothers that enlisted with him and a few that joined the Union. Will take some time tomorrow to update with photos and stories.

 

[timberjack86]

Love the photo. Hopefully the pdf of his records will give you more insight.

Thank you so much! His brother was my 3rd great grandfather. Alfred Lowe. He was captured in Chattanooga and took the oath of allegiance, I'm sure to escape the Yankee prison camps.

 

[timberjack86]

This is from ancestry,

• As recited by my great Aunt Ara, she has a letter written in 1957 received by her cousin in Maryland and written by another cousin.
  According to the letter "five brothers (Lowes) came to America from Scotland, three of whom settled in the Virginias or possibly Kentucky. Two of the brothers settled in Tennessee. One of the original five brothers settled in White County (middle Tennessee) near Sparta and had a large family. He had nine boys. When the Civil War broke out, five of the Lowe boys in this family joined the Union Army. The other four boys fought with the South. The names of the four who fought with the south were Tommy Lowe, Green Lowe, Lum Lowe, and Mitchell Lowe. Tommy and Green came through the Civil War, but Lum and Mitchell were killed on Cherry Creek.
  
  

 

[timberjack86]

Notice my great grandfather Alfred is not listed in the family.

 

[UCVRelics]

Thank you so much! His brother was my 3rd great grandfather. Alfred Lowe. He was captured in Chattanooga and took the oath of allegiance, I'm sure to escape the Yankee prison camps.

Is this him?

 

[timberjack86]

Is this him?

That's him!! There should be some union papers on him after he took the oath of allegiance. He made it thru the war and moved to Ellijay Georgia. I assume he was ashamed or afraid to go back home after the war as he would have been looked at as a traitor back home. I know lots of bad things happened to people who took the oath after the war around here. He died in 1870 in Ellijay to the best of my knowledge. I have no pictures of him.

 

[timberjack86]

This is John Marsh Lowe and his wife Polly. He is my 4th great grandfather and father to my civil war ancestors. He was a veteran of the war of 1812 by the way.

 

[UCVRelics]

I know lots of bad things happened to people who took the oath after the war around here

Not Really as after the CW there were 2 types of people. Those that took the oath and those that lied about it.

 

[timberjack86]

Not Really as after the CW there were 2 types of people. Those that took the oath and those that lied about it.

Yeah I understand that, Around here in my area of Tennessee it wasn't uncommon for Ex union soldiers to be out working in the fields and a couple of armed men show up. I know of one instance where a man was gunned down in front of his children because he fought for the union. This happened around 1870!!! I'm pretty sure thats what helped fuel the Hatfield and McCoy feud!