Bennett W. Green, CSN-- Part 3: Confederate Service

From Register of Officers of Confederate Navy.

GREEN, BENNETT WOOD

Born in Virginia,  Appointed from Virginia.

Formerly assistant surgeon U.S. Navy

In Confederate service:  Assistant Surgeon May 23, 1861, Passed Assistant Surgeon October 25, 1862, Passed Assistant Surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864.

--Old B-Runner

May 1, 1863: Establishment of the Provisional Confederate Navy-- Part 2

At this time, the Confederate Congress also provided that:  "...all persons serving in the land forces of the Confederate States who shall desire to be transferred to the naval service, and whose transfer as seamen or ordinary seamen shall be applied for by the Secretary of the Navy, shall be transferred from the land to the naval service...."

Throughout the war, the Confederate Navy suffered from an acute shortage of seamen.  Mallor complained that the law was not complied with, and that hundreds of men has applied for naval duty but were not transferred.

Old B-Runner

May 1, 1863: Establishment of the Confederate Provisional Navy

MAY 1ST, 1863:  As requested by Secretary Mallory, the Confederate Congress enacted legislation "To create a Provisional Navy of the Confederate States."

The object of the act, as explained by Captain Semmes, was "without interfering with the rank of the officers of the Regular Navy, to cull men out from the navy-lost, younger and more active men, and put them in the Provisional Navy, with increased rank."

The Regular Navy became, thus, a kind of retired list, and the Secretary of the Navy was enabled to accomplish his object of bringing forward younger officers for active service, without wounding the feelings of the older officers, by promoting their juniors over their heads, on the same list.

Fast Move.  --Old B-R'er