The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-20

Reed, the Military Secretary reported
that the three regiments of Rhode Is
land of Brigadier General Greene were
the best in discipline and equipment in
the army.
OF the twelve generals appointed
by the Continental Congress at
the beginning to serve with Washington,
Greene was the only one to continue In
active service until the end of the war.
His great service was in the South,
and the greatest in North Carolina.
Never will the military annalist cease
to admire the mastery retreat of two
hundred and thirty miles by a half clad
army over miry roads in the dead of win
ter several hundred of the soldiers
tracking the ground with their bloody
feet" And this, with four rivers-the
Catawba, the Yadkin, the Dan, and the
Haw, leaving the baff1ed CORVALLIS four
times to halt upon the opposite bank.
All this to wear out the enemy far from
his base and to spar for time until the
proposed help from Virginia and the has
tily enrolled militia could arrive. And
then he boldly gave battle with defeat
for himself for the day. but real victory
for all time in the mortal wound of his
antagonist.
Henry Lee said of it: Happily for
these States. a soldier of consummate
talents guided the destiny of the South -
Tarleton, his British foe, wrote in after
years Every measure of the Ameri-
cans during their march from the Cataw-
ba to Virginia was judiciously designed
and vigorously executed" Washington
wrote to him: 'Your retreat is highly
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your military Abilities
South Carolina and Georgia each gave
him estates of confscated property of
Tories. Greene died of a sunstroke near
Savannah only three years after peace
was made. He had made his home at
Mulberry Grove, one of the best estates
| and Georgia gave him honored burial
Left without means to feed and equip
his troops by Congress, he had person
ally guaranteed payment of his contrac-
tor, and his means were swept away.
North Carolina did not forget his splen-
did service, but gave to him $4,000 acres
of the best land in her Western borders,
afterwards Tennessee.
Now the sons of North Carolina appeal
to Rhode Island and to Georgia, and the
whole country, that this great American
| shall rest upon the field of his greatest
glory, and that a memorial worthy or
him and of the Union shall honor that
grave forever. Congress passed a reso-
I luton Immediately after his death to
| erect a monument, but it was ninety
years before a statue was unveiled in
Washington City, under its provisions
GRATED his relat isno cmfwfwyt fwypto
Rhode Island has worthily commence
rated his relations to her by a statue in
the old hall of the House of Represen-
| tatives.
Now let the Union of these States for
which he fought build his great memo
rial upon Guilford battlefield and place
his ashes where
GLORY guards with solemn round
The bivouas of the dead"
We appeal to the noble little common
wealth that gave him birth to the grand
old State of heroes that gave him a
home and bore his body to the tomb
We appeal to the whole country to unite
il placing this beloved general as a
great American without section, among
his soldiers in the soil of the State where
he served the cause of the struggling
colonies, and of liberty so well in the
sweet sleep of the just until the resur-
rection morn.
Very respectfully,
JULIAN S. CARR.
Durham, N. c., April IS, 1902.