Green Fields
Representing: Union
Unit History
- 2nd USCT Light Artillery Battery I
Green Fields 2nd USCT Light Artillery
Green Fields Pension Card 1892 WA
Green Harris Pension Pay Card 1902 WA
Green Fields Death Record 1914 WA
Family History
CWV MT PLEASANT CEM SEATTLE KING CO FIELDS GREEN Black UNION CENSUS CHRON 2022X
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Green Fields Enlisted on 5/1/1864 as a Corporal. On 5/1/1864 he mustered into US CT Batty I 2nd Light Artillery He was discharged on 12/22/1865 at Memphis, TN (Estimated date of enlistment) Other Information: born in DeSoto, MS died in 1914 in Seattle, WA Buried: Mt Pleasant Cemetery, Seattle, WA (Born a slave. Parents: Richard & Fannie (Jackson) Fields. Married Martha Flinn 10/05/1865) After the War he lived in St Louis, MO & Seattle, WA |
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Name: |
Green Fields |
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Age: |
24 |
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Estimated Birth Year: |
abt 1840 |
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Birth Location: |
Mississippi |
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Enlistment Date: |
23 Dec 1864 |
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Military Date: |
23 Dec 1864 |
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Unit: |
2nd Regiment U.S. Colored Light Artillery |
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Branch of Service: |
Artillery |
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Enclosures: |
13 |
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Name: |
Green Fields |
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Birth Place: |
DeSoto, Mississippi |
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Enlistment Date: |
1 May 1864 |
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Enlistment Rank: |
Corporal |
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Muster Date: |
1 May 1864 |
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Muster Regiment: |
U.S. Colored Troops Batty I 2nd LA |
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Muster Regiment Type: |
Artillery |
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Muster Information: |
Enlisted |
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Muster Out Date: |
22 Dec 1865 |
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Muster Out Place: |
Memphis, Tennessee |
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Muster Out Information: |
disch |
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Side of War: |
Union |
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Survived War?: |
Yes |
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Last Known Residence Place: |
St Louis, MO & Seattle, Washington |
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Death Date: |
1914 |
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Death Place: |
Seattle, Washington |
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Burial Place: |
Seattle, Washington |
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Cemetery: |
MT Pleasant Cemetery |
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Additional Notes: |
Born a slave. Parents: Richard & Fannie (Jackson) Fields. Married Martha Flinn 10/05/1865 |
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Title: |
Index to Compiled Military Service Records; Research by Edward Schoenberger |
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Name: |
Green Fields |
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Side: |
Union |
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Regiment State/Origin: |
U.S. Colored Troops |
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Regiment: |
2nd Regiment, United States Colored Light Artillery |
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Company: |
I |
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Rank In: |
Private |
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Rank Out: |
Private |
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Film Number: |
M589 roll 28 |
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Memorial: |
Part of the African American Civil War Memorial |
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Plaque Number: |
A-4 |
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Displayed As: |
Green Fields |
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1900 Seattle Ward 8 King Co. WA
Green Field Black 63/Aut 1836/TN married 1865 parents TN/TN street cleaner
Martha Black 54/1846/VA parents VA/VA 1ch 1liv
1910 Seattle Ward 3 King Co WA
Green Fields 73/1837/MS black says UA
Martha 65/1845/VA black 1ch 1liv waitress
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Name: |
Green Fields |
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Gender: |
Male |
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Birth Date: |
abt 1837 |
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Death Date: |
1 Aug 1914 |
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Age at Death: |
77 |
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Death Location: |
Seattle, King, Washington |
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Father: |
Richard Fields |
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Mother: |
Fannie Jackson |
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Record Source: |
Washington State Death Records |
Green Fields
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BIRTH |
3 Aug 1836 |
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DEATH |
1 Aug 1914 (aged 77) |
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BURIAL |
Seattle, King County, Washington, |
He was born to Richard and Fannie Jackson Fields on August 3, 1836 in Fayette County, Tennessee while in the ownership of Alexander W. and Elizabeth Jane Fields. Green was the first in his family to volunteer to fight in the Civil War. He enrolled at Memphis Tennessee on December 23, 1864 and remained in Co. I, 2nd USCT Light Artillery until December 22, 1865. He was stationed at Camp Benton Barracks, just outside of St. Louis, Missouri. It was there he met and married Martha Flinn of Mississippi in 1865. Martha brought into the family a little boy, Louis Hall from a previous slave marriage to Charles Hall; he was about 2 years old. Green would be the only father Louis would know and would take Green's last name.
The family moved around after the war. For several years they lived in Hickory Withe, Tennessee; moved to South St. Louis in 1868 and then moved to Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis County, Missouri and eventually moving to Seattle in 1893. Their son, Louis remained in St. Louis when Green and Martha moved to Seattle. They lived at several addresses in Seattle: 2713 – 4th Street; 213 – 4th Avenue North; and finally 1924 – 1st Avenue West.
His wife Martha would return to St. Louis just after the death of her son, Louis and remained there until her death October 18,1932.
He was a member of the John Miller, GAR.
Services for Green Fields were held at Temple Baptist Church at 2:00 pm on August 3. Burial was at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery on 700 West Raye Street.
Martha Fields
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BIRTH |
1842 |
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DEATH |
16 Oct 1932 (aged 89–90) |
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BURIAL |
Berkeley, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA |
Louis W. Fields son
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BIRTH |
1864 |
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DEATH |
20 Sep 1917 (aged 52–53) |
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BURIAL |
Normandy, St. Louis County, Missouri |
Cemetery
Adopt-a-Vet Sponsor
Cynthia Wilson
Seattle, Washington