M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1856-04-10
veteran soIdler ana Clergy.

-T0'u.3T no man. syai aro
J The Rev. ZachariRh Greene, the
pastor of the Presbyterian church in
Setauket, Long Island, is now in the
10th year of hisage, and q few months
age, visited some relatives in New
York. How long he has been pastor
Of the Setanket church is known to but
few, but the editor of the New York
Commercial heard him preach in the
church in the winter Of 1910, II seems
that some of the ladies of Hempstead,
l.. l., arranged to "giye a donation par
ty" to the venerable man on Washing
toms birth day, The last number Of
the Hampstead Intelligencer contains
the following communication from Mr..
Greene :lI sIii !o'n5rI .lrHT E.g.
III entered the revolutionary army
in January, 1776, at Roxbury, We
erected fort on Dorchester Neck, Oh
the high ground facing the town OF
Boston. / was on the main ground
when they sailed down the bay and
anchored near Castle William;l also,
when they cannonaded Dorchester
Point the whole night with chain and
grape shot. But the God Of the Ar.
my of America was our .preseryer,
and we had not man injured. They,
Vandal.like burnt Castle William and
left that region; but we soon heard oi
them againmaking their way to New
York, Of which they took possession
soon after the battle of Long Island.-
In the month of April | passed with
our army by the way of Providence
and New London to New York.
aided in building the forts Of Brook
| lyn, and heard the Declaration Of In
dependence for the first time on tht
fourth of July, 1776; my division o
the army marched, with the grea
Washington for their leader, to tht
tune called "Washington's March;
and came to order in a square with th'
Generals life guard in the centre.
"The reader had full voice will
an earnest articulation. 1t was music
to hear the United States declared free
The Declaration was established BY
loss of property, sickness, wounds
hunger. cold, want Of clothes, and thu
vital blood of many hundreds left up
on the battle field, to color and softer
its hard tfodden turf. was will
Col. Parsons, who was sent to take
fort on Long Island. l was in tht
battle of White Plains; | was also il
the battle of White Marsh, about IF
teen miles above Philadelphia, where
the British were robbing the people
of their cattle, horses, corn, wheat
hay, &c. / marched with troops thai
were ordered to march in haste with
out q change of clothes to their relief
We reached tho field of battle on the
7th of December, 1777, in the after
noon. was on the right flank of the
advance guard, my brother was on the
left flank, and we were both wounded
His was a bad flesh wound, below his
shoulder. l was wounded in my left
shoulder, the scapula was fractured,
and the clavicle injured.
My wound was dressed in one Of
Gen. Washington's rooms, and then
myself and othQrs left the house to
make room for others, and took our
lodging in q horse shed, without a
blanket or an overcoat, and lay on the
buckwheat straw-rather coarse and
damp substitute for feathers. The
night was sleepless, the cold distress
ing, and it is difficult to describe thu
anguish l endured in my shattered
bones; but it was for American free
dom. The next morning Genera
Green procured rooms for myself anC
, brother, where my wound and hi
were dressed by the young ladies Q
the family. Three weeks after thi
l sent for a surgeon of British reg
iment on parole, who removed tn
dead flesh and sawed the sharp point
and shattered parts of the scapula.-
!, After this the wound began to heal
yet it was over ten months before i
got well. / was never able to bea
arms afterward.
"Fellow-cit be careful Of th'
Union; do nothing to injure it; it cos
your fathers q large sum Of money
many wounds and many lives; yea
many thousand, thousand lives. ! re
quest it, be careful OF the Union; d.
nothing to injure the Union.
Yours, truly,
ZACHARIAH GREENE.
HEMPsTEAp, Feb. II, 1856.
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