Father: Judge John Williams Green (1781-1834)
Mother: Mary Brown (1790-1815)
1815 - Mother, Mary died
1832 - M.D. degree, University of Pennsylvania, Medical Department, Philadelphia, PA (from: VA; thesis: "Functions of the Spleen")
10/18/1833 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, U. S. Navy
02/04/1834 - Father, John, died (buried: Fairview Cemetery, Culpeper, Culpeper Co., VA; FindAGrave #50809271)
08/01/1837 - Appointed Passed Asst. Surgeon, U. S. Navy
1837 - Married, Virginia Slaughter (~1818-1880), ?Culpeper Co., VA
09/08//1841 - Appointed Surgeon, U. S. Navy
07/00/1860 - Physician, U. S. Navy, Culpeper Co., VA (lived with wife, "Va", "Wm." - 22 y.o.; Samuel S. - 18 y.o.; Mary V. - 21 y.o. & Daniel S. Jr. - 3 y.o. - indexed in the 1860 Census as Daniel S. Smith)
05/02/1861 - Dismissed from the U. S. Navy
06/20/1861 - Appointed Surgeon, Confederate States Navy (CSN), from Virginia
07/30/1861 - Confederate States President Jefferson Davis submitted Dr. Green's name to the CS Senate for confirmation as a Surgeon in the CSN
08/31/1861 - Surgeon, CSN, Gen. Hospital, Culpeper Court House, VA
09/07/1861 - Asst. Surgeon Henry William DeSaussure Ford, Confederate States Army, was ordered to report to Dr. Green for duty
09/30/1861 - As Surgeon, CSN - Surgeon-in-charge, Gen. Hospital, Culpeper Court House, VA
10/16/1861 - In a letter written from the General Hospital, Culpeper C. H., VA, to S.P. Moore, Acting Surgeon General, Richmond, VA, "Sir: In addition to the estimates for stoves in my letter of the 7th inst., I have now to request that you will have forwarded [?six] more of the same dimensions or rather larger. For these there will be needed one hundred & eight feet of pipe, six elbows, & six bonnets & also six sheets of tin - 10 x 12. Four of the above stoves will be used in the two wards in the "Presbyterian Church" which is designed as a permanent Hospital and two of them are for the "mill" or "warehouse", a large brick building near the Depot. It is proposed to keep this filled with beds & used as a temporary reception ward for patients arriving in snow & inclement weather & from which they could be removed to the other Hospitals as occasion and opportunity required. Two other Hospitals, the "Court House" & "Hicks" are supplied with fireplaces, but as the former leaks considerably & each is limited in accommodations & both inconvenient for supplies of food & medicines, it would be well to abandon them, when the sheds at "Smith's" are completed. the "Court House" has twenty three beds & "Hicks" has twenty three also. The capacity of the present Hospital would then be _____. Sheds at "Smiths" about [?seven] hundred, "Presbyterian Church" about sixty. [An undecipherable sentence is located here.] "Mill & "Warehouse" about Forty, for temporary reception of patients. Should the wishes of the Department or the necessities of the service require more room at this place I could respectfully recommend the building of additional sheds. I am very respectfully, your obt svt., D. S. Green, Surgn CSA" [Docketing on the back of the letter reads,"Surg. Genl. Off, Oct. 23, 61, Approved. The Q.M. is requested to forward Surg Green these stores, in addition to those on his previous requisition. Res. obt., C. H. Smith, Surg."
01/31/1862 - As Surgeon, CSN - Surgeon-in-charge, Gen. Hospital, Culpeper Court House, VA
02/28/1862 - Surgeon, CSN, Gen. Hospital, Culpeper Court House, VA
03/04/1862 - Gen. Hospital, Culpeper C. H., VA, discontinued
03/21/1862 - Left Culpeper C. H. upon the breaking up of the general hospital there by instructions from Medical Director T. H. Williams
03/22/1862-04/12/1862 - As Surgeon, CSN, spent time in Charlottesville, VA
03/30/1862 - As Surgeon, CSN, ordered to Lynchburg, VA, from Culpeper, C H., VA
04/13/1862 - "Repaired to Lynchburg" [Virginia]
05/30/1862 - As Surgeon, CSN - Surgeon-in-charge, Gen. Hospital No. 2, Lynchburg, VA
06/03/1862 - As Surgeon, CSN - Surgeon-in-charge, Gen. Hospital No. 2, Danville, VA
06/07/1862-06/28/1862 - On a weekly report of sick and wounded in Gen. Hospital No. 2, Lynchburg, VA
07/01/1862 - Appointed as Member, Examining Board for Gen. Hospital No. 2, Lynchburg, VA
07/31/1862 - As Surgeon, CSN - Surgeon-in-charge, Gen. Hospital No. 2, Lynchburg, VA
09/05/1862 - Relieved from further duty in Gen. Hospital No. 2, Lynchburg, VA, and ordered to report to the Secretary of the C. S. Navy in Richmond, VA
09/13/1862-09/20/1862 - On a weekly report of sick and wounded in Gen. Hospital No. 2, Lynchburg, VA
09/21/1862-09/23/1862 - As Surgeon, CSN, absent on leave
09/24/1862 - Relieved from duty by Surgeon W. C. N. Randolph
10/02/1862 - Confirmed as Surgeon, CSN, from VA by the Confederate States Senate
1861-1864 - Surgeon, "Richmond Station", CSN
01/01/1864 - Granted leave of absence
03/05/1864 - Died of unknown disease, Lynchburg, VA (buried: Presbyterian Cemetery, Lynchburg, VA; FindAGrave #68201608)
03/00/1864 - At a meeting of the medical officers of Lynchburg, VA, held in the Medical Purveyor's Office, a tribute of respect for Surgeon D. S. Green was drafted. This was published in the Richmond Daily Dispatch, Richmond, VA, on March 15th, 1864.
04/28/1864 - In a report to Hon. S. R. Mallory, Secretary of the Navy, Confederate States of America, W. A. W. Spotswood, Surgeon-in-Charge, Office of Medicine and Surgery, Confederate States Navy Department, wrote: ". . . .In the corps of surgeons I regret to announce the death of Dr. D. S. Green, one of its most worthy members, whose zeal in the performance of his professional duties caused him to neglect too long the proper treatment of a disease which terminated his life on the 5th of March, 1864. . ."
07/30/1870 - Widow, Virginia, lived with her son, Samuel S. Green, Culpeper Co., VA
06/10/1880 - Widow, Virginia, lived with daughter, Mary, and son-in-law, Richard Morton, Baltimore, MD
07/17/1892 - Widow, Virginia, died in Baltimore Co., MD (buried: Saint Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery, Owings Mills, Baltimore, Co., MD; FindAGrave #86037568)
06/25/1898 - Son-in-law, Lt. Col. Richard Morton, died (buried: Saint Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery, Owings Mills, Baltimore, Co., MD; FindAGrave #158276156)
1910 - Daughter, Mary, died (buried: Saint Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery, Owings Mills, Baltimore, Co., MD; FindAGrave #199427518)
04/16/1911 - Son, Dr. William Green, died in Baltimore, MD (buried: Saint Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery, Owings Mills, Baltimore, Co., MD; FindAGrave #86037636)

Note: It appears that Dr. Green served in the Confederate States Navy, but not in the Confederate States Army, despite having been a Surgeon-in-Charge of Confederate Army Hospitals and being the commander of Confederate Army physicians when they were under him in the hospitals for which he was in charge.

Laurie Goodman Lenz, the creator of this memorial, contributed 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.
11/09/2019. Unpublished database.