Zacheus Green served with his brothers as Lieutenant in Captain Russell's Company in Colonel Brook's Regiment. After the war, Zacheus returned to his farm on Bellows Hill Road and served as a member of the Board of Selectmen.
In the mid 19th Century, naturalist Henry David Thoreau would write about visiting the Green Farm, owned at the time by Zacheus's son Isaiah Green. Zacheus’s Green’s daughter-in-law, Hannah L.C. Green was a prominent Carlisle resident known for her philanthropy. In 1874, she donated the summerhouse gazebo in Green Cemetery and In 1883, she and her sister donated the funds for the purchase and installation of the Goddess of Liberty statue that was erected in the Carlisle Rotary in honor of the town’s Civil War dead.
Zacheus Green is buried in Carlisle's Green Cemetery