The gang positioned themselves around his house and shot him dead as soon as he was seen outside the house. When his brothers Robert and David, who were Union soldiers, came home after the war, they killed two of the men who had killed Alfred. The third man went insane from fear for his life. Robert D. Greene, a Union soldier and son of Richard and Jane (Trent) Greene, was born in 1841 in Hawkins County and died in 1905 in Sanger, Texas. He and his brother David were the murderers of two of the men who had killed their brother Alfred in 1863. Robert was County Clerk of Hancock County, a deputy sheriff of the county, and a wealthy farmer. According to Alton Greene, "When the Greene-Jones War started in full," Robert ordered "so many guns and ammunition, it had to be shipped by box car to Rogersville, Tennessee." Another in the chain of events was the death of Robert's oldest son Orlando "Landers" Greene, who was killed in the line of duty while Sheriff of Hancock County. Marshall Greene, a son of Joel and Nancy Slaton Greene, was born in 1828 in Hawkins County and, according to Alton Greene, "may have been a Confederate soldier" and "probably spent a year in the pen for killing someone on the Jones side." Hampton "Hamp" Greene, also a son of Joel and Nancy Slaton Greene, was born 1830 in Hawkins County and married Susan Trent, the daughter of Richard and Jane (Trent) Greene. He killed James "Jim" Greene, the nephew of Larkin Greene. Hamp Greene played a large part in the Greene–Jones War. The Jones party surrounded his house one morning and riddled it with bullet holes. The Jones party allowed the women and children to come out of the house, but Mary Greene's son, who had stayed inside with the men, was killed. Two of Hampton's sons, Dick and Dan, were in prison for killing some of the Jones men, and Hampton was trying to get them released. He met with his nephew, Jim Greene (son of Larkin Greene), at the store and Luther post office, but a quarrel ensued. "Jim tried to kill Hamp, but instead Hamp killed Jim." Hampton was never tried for the murder of his nephew. Hawkins County at that time had little official law enforcement, resorting largely to the vigilante law of the gun-toting Greene and Jones families. Richard "Dick" Greene, son of James and Lucy (Lanham) Greene, was born 1846 in Hancock County.