The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-02-03

place where General Greene was born
more than century and half later.
General Nathaniel Greene, of Revolution
ary fame, was also a descendant of the
same John Greene.
General Greene was graduated from
the United States Military Academy at
West Point in 1928, second in his class.
He served in various garrisons and as
instructor at West Point until 1886,
when he resigned from the army. He
attained considerable celebrity as con-
structor of railroads, having had charge
of the building of several of these in the
States of Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, New York, Maryland and Vir-
ginia
In 1856 he became connected with the
Croton Acqueduct Department in the
city of New York, and it was he who de-
signed and supervised the construction
of the big reservoir in Central Park
In 1861 he re-entered the army at the
age of co. and was appointed by Presi-
dent Lincoln brigadier-genera of volun-
teers after he had gone to the front as
colonel of the Sixtieth New York Regi-
ment. He commanded his brigade at
Cedar Mountain, August 8, 1861, and
was in command of the second division
OF the Twelfth Army Corps in the battle
of Antietam, when his horse was shot
from under him. At Gettysburg, on the
night of July 2, 1868, with part of his
brigade, he held the right wing of the
Army of the Potomac at Culp's Hill
against more than a division of Confeder-
ate troops, thereby averting probable
serious disaster.
He was transferred to the Western
army in September, 1858, and in an en-
gagement near Chattanooga, on October
2S, of the same year, was wounded. This
wound disabled him for active service
until January, 1865, when he rejoined
Sherman's army in North Carolina and
participated in the engagements preced-
ing the surrender of johnson.
General Greene was brevetted ma
jor- general of volunteers on March 10.
1865, and was mustered out of service
in 1866
He was appointed chief engineer and
commissioner of the Croton Acqueduct
Department, New York, 1867 and re-
manned in that Office until 1871, when he
was called to Washington, d. c., to take
the important post of chief engineer of
public works. While in that city General
Greene drew up the elaborate plans for
the Washington sewerage system.
General Green is survived by three
sons and daughter. The latter is Mrs,
Murray S. Day, with whom the General
had made his home since coming to Nor
ristown. All of the sons won distinction
in military or civil life. One of these,
s. Doan Green, who died in 1888, was a
first lieutenant on the famous Monitor,
and was in the memorable battle with
the Merrimac.
The surviving sons are Major Charles
T. Green, who lost leg at Lookout
Mountain and now lives retired at
Brookfield, Conn, and Francis b. Green,
who was graduated at the head of his
class in 1870, at West Point and served
twelve years in the army He then went
into civil life, but again joined the army
and distinguished himself at Manila and
Havana in the recent war with Spain.
The third son is George s. Green, Jr.,
who has made a reputation as a civil
engineer in New York
The funeral services of General Green
were held at ST. Peters Episcopal
Church, where the deceased had been an
attendant before he was confined to his
homo, about fifteen months ago. There
was a large attendance at the church
and the full Episcopal service was con-
dacted.
The honorary pail bearers were Cap
tain l.. l.. Buck Of New York, Theodore
Cooper of New York, General o. D.
Howard, U. s. A.. Colonel G. w.
Larned, U. S. A., of West Point; Charles
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