03/13/1837 (or 03/17/1837) - Born, Sumter Co. AL [Father: Daniel Greene (1793-1842); Mother: Eustacia "Stacy" Andrews (1796-1876)]

08/21/1842 - Father, Daniel, died in Sumter Co, AL (buried: Parker Cemetery, Sumter Co., AL; FindaGrave #39589947)

1854-1855 - Attended, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (from: Livingston, Sumter Co., AL)

1855-1856 - Attended, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA

1856 - M.D. degree, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA (from: Sumter Co., AL; preceptor: Dr. E. L. Lewis; thesis: "Fecundation and Conception)

06/19/1860 - Practiced medicine, Division 1, Chickasaw Co., MS (lived alone)

06/06/1861 - Enlisted, Confederate States Army

06/06/1861-06/30/1861 - Acting Asst. Surgeon (contract physician), 17th MS Infantry

06/29/1861 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States

06/30/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 17th MS Infantry, near Manassas Junction, VA

07/31/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 17th MS Infantry, Leesburg, VA

08/31/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 17th MS Infantry, Leesburg, VA

10/31/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 17th MS Infantry, 7th Brigade, Army of the Potomac, Carter's Mill, VA

12/31/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 17th MS Infantry, Leesburg, VA

02/08/1862 - As Asst. Surgeon, 17th MS Infantry, granted 30 days leave of absence

02/28/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 17th MS Infantry, Leesburg, VA

03/30/1862 - Asst. Surgeon , 17th MS Infantry, Rapidan, VA

04/30/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 17th MS Infantry

09/17/1862 - As Asst. Surgeon, 17th MS Infantry, with wounded at Antietam, MD

11/20/1862 - Granted furlough

12/31/1862 - On leave of absence in MS

12/04/1862 - Married, Ophelia Harrison "Phee" Walton (1840MS-1914), Aberdeen, Monroe Co., MS

01/04/1863 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States

01/04/1863 - Surgeon, 17th MS Infantry

01/23/1863 - "Surgeon Jas. Mc Greene will report to Surgeon N. S. Crowell, Medical Director &c. at Jackson, Mississippi for assignment to duty." [S.O. 19/23]

02/13/1863-03/26/1863 - Surgeon, Yazoo City, MS

05/02/1863 - Surgeon, Yazoo City, MS

06/13/1863 - As Surgeon, ordered to Lauderdale Springs, MS

07/20/1863 - In a letter written from Gen. Loring's Division, Camp Hospital, Lauderdale Springs, MS, to Medical Purveyor Richard Potts, Mobile, Alabama, "Sir, I have the honor to report the arrival at this station of the Medicines, Hospital Stores &c. comprised in Invoices dated July 4 and 10th for which please find receipts accompanying. The Supplies corresponded with the Invoices and were in good order except three chamber pots and forty-six plates broken and two bolts of Domestic not included in the Invoices but contained in the receipts. As we were receiving a number of wounded from Jackson at these Camps, I felt justified in retaining the Domestic (muslin) for Dressings. Very Respectfully, Your obedient Servant, J McCown Greene, Surgeon in chge"

08/05/1863 - Surgeon, Lauderdale Springs, MS

10/09/1863 - Surgeon, Lauderdale Springs, MS

11/10/1863 - In a letter from the Medical Director's Office, Meridian, MS, to Col. B. S. Ewell, Asst. Adjutant Genl., "Sir, I respectfully request that Surg, J. McCown Greene in chg of Loring Div. Hospital, Lauderdale, Miss, be instructed to remove his hospital to this place, the tents being no longer tenable and buildings being erected for the purpose at this place.  Very Respectfully, Your obt. Servt., D. W. Yandell, Medl. Director"

12/31/1863 - Surgeon, Meridian, MS

01/30/1864 - Confirmed as Surgeon from MS by the Confederate States Senate

01/31/1864 - Surgeon in charge, Gen. Hospital, Meridian, MS

02/24/1864 - In a letter from Headquarters, Demopolis, AL, "Sir, I have to request Surgeon J. McC. Green [sic], his Medical Officers, Hospital Attendants, & Hospl. property be ordered to Marion, Ala., to open a Hospital for Loring's Division. Very respec, Yr. obdt. Svt., P. B. Scott, Med. Dir."

03/01/1864 - Surgeon in charge, Hospital, Marion, AL

03/00/1864 - In a letter written to Surgeon General S. P. Moore, Richmond, VA, "Sir, It being difficult to obtain supplies for Hospl. Attendants from the market, I deem it expedient, with your approval, to ___ some of the attendants in the Hospital to get 'day board' in houses near the Hospital and in this, commutation of rations exactly covers the expense of their Board. I transfer it to them taking their receipts as vouchers. J. McC Greene, Surgeon in charge'

04/22/1864-05/30/1864 - Surgeon in charge, Hospital, Marion, AL

07/31/1864 - Surgeon, Marion, AL

08/29/1864 - Surgeon, Marion, AL

10/10/1864 - Surgeon, 17th MS Infantry, Marion, AL

11/14/1864 - Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Marion, AL

02/28/1865 - Surgeon in charge, Hospitals, Marion, AL

05/16/1865 - As a Prisoner of War, paroled by the U. S. Army, Marion, AL [Note: This is misfiled in the Confederate Compiled Service Records under "J. W. H. Greene." ]

08/19/1870 - Practiced medicine, Aberdeen, Chickasaw Co., MS (lived with wife, and four children; indexed in the 1870 U. S. Census as "James Green')

1874  - Practiced medicine, Aberdeen, Chickasaw Co., MS

10/24/1876 - Mother, Eustacia, died in Chickasaw Co., MS (buried: Gunntown Cemetery, Egypt, Chickasaw Co., MS; FindaGrave #11775339)

06/15/1880 - Practiced medicine, Aberdeen, Monroe Co., MS (lived with wife, Ophelia, four sons, and one daughter; indexed in the 1880 U. S. Census as "J. M. Green")

04/00/1880 - Commissioned Health Officer for Monroe Co., MS, by the Governor (The Comet, Jackson, MS, Apr. 10, 1880, p. 3, c. 4)

04/00/1882 - First Vice President, Mississippi State Medical Association (Grenada  Sentinel, Grenada, MS, Apr. 15, 1882, p. 4, c. 3)

04/09/1884 - President, Mississippi State Medical Association (Greenville Times, Greenville, MS, Apr. 12, 1884, p. 1, c. 6)

07/21/1885 - State Medical Examiner for the Knights of Honor of Mississippi (The Clarion, Jackson, MS, July 22, 1885, p. 3, c. 2)

1886 - Practiced medicine, Aberdeen, Monroe Co., MS (indexed as James M. Greene in Polk's Medical and Surgical Directory of the United States)

1890 - Practiced medicine, Aberdeen, Monroe Co., MS (indexed as James M. Greene in Polk's Medical and Surgical Register of the United States)

1896 - Practiced medicine with his son, James M. Green, Jr., Aberdeen, Monroe Co., MS (indexed as James M. Greene in Polk's Medical and Surgical Register of the United States) [Note: Son, James, received his M.D. degree from Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, in 1893.]

06/04/1900 - Practiced medicine, Aberdeen, Monroe Co., MS (lived with wife, "Opelia"; indexed in the 1900 U. S. Census as "James Green")

09/14/1906 - Treasurer of Monroe Co., MS (The Aberdeen Weekly, Aberdeen, Monroe Co., MS, p. 1, c. 1)

06/25/1909 - Son, Dr. Walton Silas Greene, died in Aberdeen, Monroe Co., MS (buried: Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery, Aberdeen, MS; FindaGrave #121586288)

04/26/1910 - Practiced medicine, Ward 4, Aberdeen, Monroe Co., MS (lived with wife, "Orhelia"; indexed in the 1910 U. S. Census as "J. M. Green")         

05/19/1913 (or 05/20/1913) - Died in Aberdeen, Monroe Co., MS (buried: Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery, Aberdeen, MS; FindaGrave #112567849)

08/05/1914 - Widow, Ophelia, died in Aberdeen, Monroe Co., MS (buried: Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery, Aberdeen, MS; FindaGrave #112568103)

James Mayfield and F. Michael Angelo provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:

Hambrecht, F. T. & Koste, J. L., Biographical

register of physicians who served the

Confederacy in a medical capacity.

03/18/2024. Unpublished database.