The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-18
TRIBUTE TO AN OLD WAR VET.
 BRAN. CHARLES GREEN

l LItA1N, Cf1ARLES. GREEN.
 In the war of 1861 1865 when our mo-
 ble president, Abraham Lincoln, called
 for volunteers, Charles Green of New
 Haven with his father, John Green, re- sponded to the call and enlisted in the Sixth Connecticut regiment.
 Charles Green was a boy under six teen years of age and was twice re- fused on account of his extreme youth. Upon his third attempt to enlist, Cap tain Gerish accepted him, saying: He | is so persistent he will make a good soldier, and I think his father and I together ought to be able to keep him out of mischief.
 l He went into every fight that his regi- ment was engaged in and never shirked duty. He was the first soldier in Connecticut that carried flag of truce to the enemy. His father and com manding officer were not always sue cessful in keeping him out of mischief but his pranks were innocent and harm less, and when the bugle sounded for battle he was always at the front and in a brave loyal way discharged every duty until in the fortunes of war he was wounded in several places, wrist, knee and limbs. One wound in his head proved quite serious and from that wound he never entirely recovered.
 Young Green was missing for three days after one eventful battle, and af- ter the boys had given him up as killed, he marched into camp bringing two prisoners of war, and was Justify cheer ed for his bravery. He lay in the hos pital three months after the army was disbanded. Upon his return home from the war he worked at his trade in New Haven.
 In 1870 he was married to Ellen F.. Hawley, and from that union two chill dren were born; son, who died in in fancy, and daughter the present Mrs. Nellie Green Hinckley.
 MT Green lived for many years a quiet life in cottage near the bridge between Branford and East Haven.
 A few years ago. as a result of wounds received in battle, coupled with the terrible shock of the drowning of his son-in-law, Engineer Charles Hinck- ley, he entirely lost him mind and was sent to the hospital for the insane at | Middletown. He was three times sent l home in an improved condition.
 Last August MT. Green again showed | signs of dementia and as it was con- sidered unsafe to keep him at home, he was returned to the asylum, where he gradually sank into decline of all his powers, mental and physical
 About three weeks before he died he kept constantly calling upon God as his Dear Father and Friend, and expressed such desire for baptism that a clergy man was called and he was baptised into the Episcopal church and received Holy Sacrament.
 The funeral services were conducted by Rev. pr. Lines at the home of the late MT. Green and the body was laid at rest in East Haven cemetery
 The floral offerings were very beauti- full, among them standing shield two feet high covered with flowers and in- tervowen in immortelles the word Papa" A wreath of mixed flowers and ivy leaves contained the word Rest" The body was enclosed in sasket of grey brocaded velvet
 MT. Green leaves a wife and daugh- ter, Mrs. Nellie Green Hinckley, to mourn his loss.
 Rest, beloved, rest Folded now in quiet meekness are those
 hands of busy quest, Finding now their weary labor turned
 to blessed peaceful rest,
 Rest beloved, rest"