The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-02-29
THE DAILY DISPATCH.


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A VETERAN SOLDIER AND CIERaYMAs.-Ihe
Rev zachariah Greene, the pastor Of the freso'
terrain church in Sctauket, Long Island - no"
in the 9th year Of his age. and . few months Aso
visited some relative In New York. How long Ae
has been pastor of the Setauket church. ~ inv"
to but few, but the editor of the New io.~ a..
: merciai heard him preach In the cha'.a -
winter Of 1910 II seems that some oi 'Ae
Of Hampstead. n j., arranged 70 s".
ton party" to the venerable man on .N'''Hss
birth day Friday last. The last NUMBER VI lis
Hampstead lnteIlgencer contains 'ns 'o''o"'hg
communication from Mr.. Greene;
I.r,.r.a the revolutionary army in January
,-ss A. Roxbury We erected fort on Dorches.
ter Scck. on the high ground facing the town OF
Boston, by which the British army was driven OUT
of Ros.on, was on the main ground when they
sailed down the bay and anchored hear castle
William: also when they cannonaded Dorchester
Point the whole night with chain and grape sho''
But the God Of the Army of America was our pre-
server and we had not man injured Ihey, van
sa IKE burnt Castle William and left that region:
but we soon heard of them again making tneir
way to New York of which they took possession
soon alter the battle of Long Island IN tne month
of April passed with our army py Ine way Q,
providence and New London TO New York.
aided In building the forts at Brooklyn and heard
The Declaration of Independence for the first time
on the 4th of July, l776; my DIVISION OF the army
marched with the great washington for their
leader. 10 the tune called "Washingtons March"
and came to order IN square, Will the Uenefhis
life guard in the centre.
The reader had full voice with an earnest arti
culation. 1t was music to hear the United States
declared free. This Declaration was established
by loss of property, Sickness wounds, hunger, cold
want of clothes, and the vital blood of many hun
dreds left upon the battle field to color and soften
its hardtrodden turf. was with Col. Parsons
who was sent to take fort en- Long Island was
10 the battle at Throgg's Point and soon after In
the battle of White Plains. was also in the bat
tie of White Marsh, about fifteen miles above Phil
adephia, where the British were robbing the peo-
Pile of their cattle horses, corn, wheat, hay, &c
l marched with troops that were ordered to march
in haste without change of clothes to their relief
We reached the field of battle on the 7th of De-
cember III, in the afternoon. Twas on the right
flank of the advance guard, my brother was on the
left faux, and we were both wounded. His was a
bad flesh wound, below his shoulder was wound
ed in my left shoulder the scapula was fractured,
and the clavicle injured.
My wound was dressed in one of Gen Washing
tons rooms, and then myself and others left the
house to make room for others, and took up our
lodging in a herse-shed, without a blanket or an
overcoat, and lay on buckwheat straw-rather
coarse and damp substitute for feathers The
night was sleepless the cold distressing and it is
difficult TO describe the anguish endured in my
shattered bopes but it was for American freedom.
The next morning General Greene procured rooms
for myself and brother, where nay wounds and his
were dressed by the young ladies of the family
Three weeks after this sent for surgeon of a
British regiment on parole, who removed the dead
flesh and sawed the sharp points and shattered
parts of the scapula. After this the wound began
to heal, yet it was over ten months before it got
we'll was never able to bear arms afterward.
Fellow citizens, be careful of the Union; do no
thing to injure it; it cost your fathers large sum
of money, many wounds and many lives, yea
many thousand lives. / request it, be careful Of
the Union; do nothing to injure the Union.
Yours, truly, ZACHARIAH GREENE.
Hampstead, Feb. IL, 1856.