Wharton Jackson Green

Wharton Jackson Green (February 28, 1831 – August 6, 1910) was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina and an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Born in St. Marks, Florida, Green was instructed by private tutors. He attended Georgetown College, Lovejoy’s Academy in Raleigh, North Carolina, and the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York but dropped out. He then studied law at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville and at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee. He was admitted to the bar in 1854 and commenced practice in Washington, D.C. before engaging in agricultural pursuits in Warren County, North Carolina, in 1859.

During the Civil War, Green enlisted in the Confederate service in 1861 and rose through the ranks to lieutenant colonel of the Second North Carolina Battalion. Afterward, he served on Brigadier General Junius Daniel’s staff. Green was wounded and taken prisoner at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863. He spent the rest of the war in the Johnson's Island prisoner-of-war camp.

After the war, he settled at “Tokay Vineyard,” near Fayetteville, North Carolina, and became interested in viticulture. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1868, 1872, 1876, and 1888. Green was the first president of the Society of Confederate Soldiers and Sailors in North Carolina.

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