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Title: The remains of Major-General Nathanael Greene
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Rhode Island. General Assembly. Joint Special Committee on the Remains of Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene Field, Edward, 1858-1928 Gardiner, Asa Bird, 1839-1919 Rhode Island. General Assembly, 1903
Subjects: Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786
Publisher: Providence, E. L. Freeman & Sons, printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e and waswith him when he died. I have often wrote you, wrote Wayneto Colonel James Jackson, but never on sodistressing an occasion. My dear friend Gen-eral Greene is no more. He departed thismorning, at six oclock, A. M. He was greatas a soldier, greater as a citizen, immaculateas a friend. His corpse will be at Major Pen-dletons this night, the funeral from thence inthe evening. The honors, the greatest honors,of war are due his remains. You, as a soldier,will take the proper order on this melancholyaffair. Pardon this scrawl; my feelings aretoo much affected because I have seen a greatand a good man die. When the news of his death reached Savan-nah, it produced unusual sorrow, affecting allclasses of the people. Preparations werehastily made to do full honors to the memoryof the distinguished man, and to surround theobsequies with all the dignity and ceremonybefittinor his hioh character and rank. 1 Life of Major-General Nathanael Greene, by GeorgeWashington Greene, Vol. 3, p. 534.
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NATHANAEL GREENE. 83 General Greene died on Monday morning,June 19, 1786, at 6 oclock. On Tuesday hisbody was taken by water to Savannah andlanded in front of the house of Major Pendle-ton, which formerly stood on Bay street nextto the corner of Barnard street.^ It was at this house that he had spent thenight only a week before, and from which hehad set out on the journey terminating in hisdeath. In front of this house the militia, represent-atives of the municipality, members of theSociety of the Cincinnati, and many persons inprivate and official life received the body. Theshipping in the harbor had their colors half-masted, the shops and stores in the town wereshut, and the people throughout the town sus-pended their labors, all uniting in giving tes-timony of the deepest sorrow. At about fiveoclock in the afternoon the funeral processionproceeded from the Pendleton house to theColonial cemetery belonging to ChristsChurch; the artillery in Fort Wayne firing ^ This house was demolis

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