According to census records, in 1850 Green Hill Thompson is a 16yr old student living with his parents, William N. and Mary Thompson. Green Hill was born in Alabama, his father in England and mother in Georgia. His father is a Tavern Keeper. Living with them is James W. Wigglesworth, who is employed as a miller. By 1860, Green’s father appears to have died and Green is living with his older brother William and his family in the Autaugaville area. William is married to Mary C. Wigglesworth. Green has finished school and is now a Physician. Residing nearby is James W. Wigglesworth and his wife Balsora, Green’s younger sister. James Wigglesworth is now a stable keeper. With the start of the War in 1861, Green enlists into the 6th Alabama Infantry Company G, Autauga Rifles at the rank of 1st Sgt. His brother-n-law, James W. Wigglesworth joins the Autauga Guards, entering at the rank of 1st Lt. At re-enlistment, Green is elected 2nd Lieutenant and later promoted to Captain.

After the war, Green continued to serve as a physician in his community. He remained in close contact with his brother-n-law James W. Wigglesworth and Samuel J. Jones who served with him in the Autauga Rifles. All three of these Confederate Veterans are buried together with their families in the Hall family cemetery on County Road 45, just west of Autaugaville near the community of Shiloh. Green’s headstone does not mention his confederate service, it simply reads…..Dr. Green H. Thompson died August 25, 1886 Aged 53 yrs. His mother, Mary Thompson is buried nearby. Her headstone reads....Mary Thompson died 1874 71yrs. Autauga County marriage records show Green H. Thompson marrying Ella E. Morgan on March 13, 1877, bk.7 pg.164. There is no marker for Ella in this cemetery. From Prattville’s Southern Signal newspaper September 3, 1886: Died - At his residence in Autaugaville, on the 26th ult., Dr. G. H. Thompson. The doctor had been a sufferer from a lingering disease for sometime, and in his death Autaugaville lost one of its best citizens and a fine physician. Barry N. Wyatt

n April 1861 Thompson joined a local militia company known as the Autauga Rifles, which within a month was inducted into the Confederate Army on June 2, 1861 at Corinth. Mississippi as Co. G, 6^th Alabama Volunteer Infantry Regiment, captained by a physician named Thomas A. Davis. .

During the course of the war Thompson was thrice wounded, once during the Seven Days’ Battles (June 26-July 7, 1862), at Cold Harbor (June 1-3, 1863), and near Petersburg (March 24, 1865). Meanwhile, he was promoted from private to 1^st Sergeant March 12, 1862 to 1st lieutenant, the last-named rank having been personally approved by Gen. Robert E. Lee because of ‘gallantry displayed in the engagements of the 5^th, 6^th, 10^th, 12^th and 29^th May and 2 June, 1864, as well as for his general good conduct and fitness for the position.’

After the war Thompson purchased a 320-acre farm near Autaugaville and on February 20, 1866, at the age of thirty, married Virginia C. Pou, daughter of John Wesley and Rachel A. (Golson) Pou, formerly of South Carolina. On November 21, 1866 their first child was born, hut the little girl lived only three weeks. And in less than two years Virginia also died and was buried beside her daughter in Asbury Cemetery in Autaugaville.

Thompson married again on October 16. 1869, this time to Emma Cora Shackleford, daughter of Robert Eudony Linton and Cordelia Ann (Quigley) Shackleford, direct descendants of Roger Shackleford of Old Aresford, Hampton, England, who had migrated to America in 1649. To this couple were born three children, Lide, William N. and Robert S. Thompson.

On December 19, 1879, when Thompson was forty-three years old, a respected Confederate veteran and a successful farmer, he delivered an address before the Merrill E. Pratt Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy in Autaugaville. Later, as he states in his preface, he added a roster of the company and published the whole as Reminiscences of the Autauga Rifles in hopes that it ‘would pre­serve some record’ of the soldiers of the county who had served in the Confederate Army.

Copies of Thompson’s Reminiscences are extremely rare, and it has never before been reprinted. (However, there are four other published essays touching upon the 6^th Alabama, making it one of the best documented of all Alabama Confederate regiments.)  

In 1888 Thompson was elected sheriff of Autauga County, a post he held four years. He was a prominent member of the Alabama  

Farmers’ Alliance, the Masonic Order, and the local Methodist Church, of which he was superintendent of Sunday School from 1901 to 1904.

Thompson died on January 19, 1910 at the age of sixty-four, only four months after the death of his wife. Both are buried in Rocky Hill Cemetery in Autaugaville. In his obituary, published in the Prattville Progress, January 27, 1910, the editor stated that ‘Thompson was one of the best and most prominent citizens of this county, a gallant Confederate soldier. He was one of the three living members of the Autauga Rifles of Civil War fame.”  "Reminiscences of Autauga Rifles"