The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-02
RE-INTERMENT OF GEN. GREENE

/
|
RE-INTERMENT OF GEN. GREENE.
The remains of Gen. Nathaniel
| Greene, soldier, patriot and the friend
of Washington, will be committed to
the earth beneath the Greene monu
ment in johnson Square in this city
on Nov. IA. For more than half a
century the shaft has lowered, silent
memorial to one whose ability in war
and whose leadership of the continent
tai forces against the red cohorts of
England were second only to Washing
tons. 1t has stood as a tribute of
loving people to the valor of the pa
| triot. 1t is to do more. 1t is to mark
the last resting place of that patriots
remains. From the uncertainty of a
century as to their place of burial, the
sacred relics have been reclaimed, and
the granite shaft is to stand not only
in it's significance as tribute, but to
point the spot where the hero lies.
National import will mark the cere-
mony of Nov. IA. Throughout the
United States there will be interest in
|
vault, whose dead were the quick of
| Colonial days, has been won by careful
search the dust of that noble frame
that comported so we'll with the dig
nifty and the mien of the soldier. BY
the side of the father lay the remains
Of the son, George Washington Greene,
who was drowned in the Savannah. To
| -.
With commendable zeal the Associa
ton of Patriotic Societies of Savan-
nah, at the request of the descendants
of Gen. Greene, has undertaken the
charge of the ceremonies that will
mark the reinterment. Rhode Island,
Gen. Greene's native state, strongly de-
sired the privilege of interring his
bones in its soil, and no expense would
have been spared had its desire been
granted. The lineal descendants, how
ever, in whom is vested the right to fix
the place for the burial declared for
| Georgia soil and it was determined to
Mace the remains beneath the monu-
ment in johnson Square in this city.
Great labor, expended solely through
patriotic motives. and that regard for
a peoples past that does so much for
a peoples future, has been put forth
by the committees from the societies
to which the arrangements have been
entrusted. There have been countless
matters of detail demanding the atten-
ton of the several subcommittee and
of the officers. but all have responded
with their best efforts. To the secre-
tary has fallen a great mass of CORE
spondence, indicative of the deep in
terest that is felt in the event.
In a spirit of liberality of purse,
commensurate with the liberality Of
effort and personal endeavor displayed
by those upon the committees, has the
solicitation of funds with which to
carry out the programme for the cere-
monies been met. These will be am
pie for the entertainment of all who
come as guests. Among these will be
the Governor and other distinguished
men of Rhode Island, Col. Asa Bird
Gardiner, the Governor of Georgia, the
Speaker of the House and the Presi-
dent of the Senate of Georgia, besides
the some twenty-three direct descend
ants of Gen. Greene.
Upon Col. Gardiner, president of the
Society of the Cincinnati in Rhode ISL
and, has been conferred the honor Of
delivering the ceremonial address. In
extending Col. Gardiner the invitation,
the committees not only made the Sc
lection of a scholar of note and an ora
tor of distinction. but paid a pleasing
compliment to the one of all others
who, prosecuting the search for Gen.
Greene's remains, is responsible for
their discovery.
Savannah was Gen. Greene's adopted
home. Our people should appear in
Johnson Square on the afternoon of
Nov. Il. in numbers to prove that es-
TEEN and admiration in which his name
is held.