Bennett Green, CSN-- Part 1: Surgeon

Over the last month I have written a lot about Newport News, Mulberry Island and Fort Crafford, Virginia, in my Saw the Elephant Civil War blog.  I mentioned this man in connection with Mulberry Island (on the James River).

His family lived in one of the homes on the island and he went on to become a surgeon in the Confederate Navy.  When the Union forces took over the area in 1862, most homes on the island were abandoned and ransacked by Union soldiers.

One of these men found and took as a souvenir, Green's Confederate commission as a ship's surgeon.  Years later, this was returned to Greens's family.

--Old B-Runner