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Green, Martin

Martin Green, a farmer and Lewis County administrator in northeast Missouri. His first command was a State Guard force that unsuccessfully attacked a small force of Home Guard troops at Athens led by Col. Davey Moore. Green’s force subsequently united with Gen. Sterling Price’s State Guard army at Lexington and participated in the siege there. Green led with distincition and eventually commanded the Second Missouri Brigade under Major Gen. John S. Bowen. He was killed by a sniper’s minie ball at Vicksburg.

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