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GREENE
dence and discipline. His campaign recovered
the places seized by the eueniy and Kually penned
up tlie British army in Charleston. He was,
however, defeated by Cornwallis at Guilford
Court House, March 15, 1781. On the retreat of
the army of Cornwallis toward Wilmington, N. C. ,
General Greene turned back to recover South
Carolina and was surjjrised by General Rawdon,
April 35, at Hobkirk's Hill, S.C, but saved his
army by a masterly retreat. He then laid siege
to Fort Ninety Six aud afterward met and de-
feated the forces under Colonel Stewart at
Eutaw Springs, .September 8, and put an end
to British domination in South Carolina and
Georgia. On April 16, 1783, the news of peace
reached General Greene at Charleston and soon
after the army was disbanded and Greene re-
turned North. He visited congress sitting at
Princeton, N. J., and reported his administration
of the affairs of the Southern army and surren-
dered his trust. In Princeton he met his com-
mander-in-chief and enjoj-ed a renewal of a
friendship that had begun at Roxbury in 1775.
After a year spent with his family in Rhode
Island he went south to take possession of a
plantation, " Mulberry Grove," on the .Savannah
river which had been presented to him by the
state of Georgia. He was married in July, 1774,
to Catharine Littlefield of Block Island, and
left five children: George Washington, Martha
Washington, Cornelia Lott, Nathanael Ray and
Louisa Catharine. Of these George Wash-
ington accompanied LaFayette to France in
1783, and was educated under the Marquis's
care as a companion of his own son also named
George Washington, returning to Georgia in
1794 ; Martha was married to Jolin C. Niglit-
ingale and afterward to Dr. Henry Turner of
Tennessee ; Cornelia was married to Peyton
Skipwith and afterward to E. B. Littlefield of
Tennessee; Nathanael was married to Ann Clark
and settled in East Greenwich, R.I., and Louisa,
born shortly after her father's death, was mar-
ried to James Shaw, and settled on Cumberland
island. After a few years of widowhood Mrs.
Greene was married to Pliineas Miller, and at her
death. Sept 3, 1814, left to each of her children
a competent fortune, the nucleus of which was
the thanks gifts of Carolinians and Georgians
to the gallant defender of their territorj' against
British aggression. Congress presented him with
a medal and a British standard for his victory at
Eutaw Springs, and Rhode Island caused his
statue to be placed in the rotunda of tiie capitol
at Washington. His life was written by his
grandson, George Washington Greene (3 vols.,
1868-71). and by Francis Vinton Greene in Great
C'o»?(»!«Hrffrs series (189.3) General Greene died
at Mulberry Grove, Savannah, Ga., June 19, 1786.
GREENE, Nathaniel, journalist, was born in
Boseawen, N.li.. May 20, 1797. He attended
the common schools and in 1809 apprenticed
himself to the proprietor of the Xeio Hampshire
Patriot in Concord. Subsequently he became
editor of the Concord Gazette, and in 1814 took
the management of the New Hampshire Gazette
at Portsmouth. He conducted the Haverhill,
Mass., Gazette. 1815-17, and in May of the latter
year established the Essex Patriot. In 1831 he
removed to Boston, Mass., and there established
the Boston Statesman which subsequently be-
came the leading Democratic journal of the
state. He was i)ostmaster of Boston, 1839—10
and 1845-49. He then went to Paris, France,
where he lived tiU 1861 engaging in literary
work. On his return to the United States he
made his residence in Boston. Besides numerous
poems and other contributions to periodicals,
mostly under the pen-name "Boseawen," he
published a number of translations including:
History of Italy, by G. Sforzosi ( 1836) ; TaJes from
the German (1837) ; Tales from the German, Ital-
ian and French (1843); and Improvisations (^1852).
He died in Boston, Mass., Nov. 29, 1877.
GREENE, Ray, senator, was born in War- wick, R.I., Feb. 2, 1765; son of William and Catharine (Ray) Greene. He was graduated from Yale in 1784, was admitted to the bar, and opened an office in Providence. He was attor- ney-general of Rhode Island, 1794-97, and on November 23 of the latter year was elected to the U.S. senate to complete the unexpired term of William Bratlford, resigned. He was re- elected in 1799 for a full term but resigned on Dec. 7, 1801, to accept the post of district judge of Rhode Island, tendered him by President Adams. Some technicality in the appointment was overlooked by President Adams and Pres- ident Jefferson refused to rectify the mistake, and Judge Greene retired. He married Mary, daugh- ter of George Flagg of Charleston, S.C. He died in Warwick, R.I., Jan. 11, 1849.
GREENE, Samuel Dana, naval oflieer, was born in Cumberland, Md., Feb. 11, 1839; son of George Sears and Martlia (Dana) Greene. He was graduated at the U.S. naval academy in 1859 and was a midshipman on the Hartford in the China squadron, 18.59-61. When the Monitor was designed by John Ericsson, Lieutenant Greene volunteered for service on that vessel and was second in command in the battle of Hampton Roads, and continued on board up to the time it foundered at sea off Hatteras, Dec. 29. 1863. He took charge of the guns in the tur- ret during the fight with the Merrimac and person- ally fired every shot up to the time of the disabling of Lieutenant Worden when he took command and directed the movements of the
