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dence and discipline. His campaign recovered the places seized by the eueniy and Kually penned up tlie British army in Charleston. He was, however, defeated by Cornwallis at Guilford Court House, March 15, 1781. On the retreat of the army of Cornwallis toward Wilmington, N. C. , General Greene turned back to recover South Carolina and was surjjrised by General Rawdon, April 35, at Hobkirk's Hill, S.C, but saved his army by a masterly retreat. He then laid siege to Fort Ninety Six aud afterward met and de- feated the forces under Colonel Stewart at Eutaw Springs, .September 8, and put an end to British domination in South Carolina and Georgia. On April 16, 1783, the news of peace reached General Greene at Charleston and soon after the army was disbanded and Greene re- turned North. He visited congress sitting at Princeton, N. J., and reported his administration of the affairs of the Southern army and surren- dered his trust. In Princeton he met his com- mander-in-chief and enjoj-ed a renewal of a friendship that had begun at Roxbury in 1775. After a year spent with his family in Rhode Island he went south to take possession of a plantation, " Mulberry Grove," on the .Savannah river which had been presented to him by the state of Georgia. He was married in July, 1774, to Catharine Littlefield of Block Island, and left five children: George Washington, Martha Washington, Cornelia Lott, Nathanael Ray and Louisa Catharine. Of these George Wash- ington accompanied LaFayette to France in 1783, and was educated under the Marquis's care as a companion of his own son also named George Washington, returning to Georgia in 1794 ; Martha was married to Jolin C. Niglit- ingale and afterward to Dr. Henry Turner of Tennessee ; Cornelia was married to Peyton Skipwith and afterward to E. B. Littlefield of Tennessee; Nathanael was married to Ann Clark and settled in East Greenwich, R.I., and Louisa, born shortly after her father's death, was mar- ried to James Shaw, and settled on Cumberland island. After a few years of widowhood Mrs. Greene was married to Pliineas Miller, and at her death. Sept 3, 1814, left to each of her children a competent fortune, the nucleus of which was the thanks gifts of Carolinians and Georgians to the gallant defender of their territorj' against British aggression. Congress presented him with a medal and a British standard for his victory at Eutaw Springs, and Rhode Island caused his statue to be placed in the rotunda of tiie capitol at Washington. His life was written by his grandson, George Washington Greene (3 vols., 1868-71). and by Francis Vinton Greene in Great C'o»?(»!«Hrffrs series (189.3) General Greene died at Mulberry Grove, Savannah, Ga., June 19, 1786.

GREENE, Nathaniel, journalist, was born in Boseawen, N.li.. May 20, 1797. He attended the common schools and in 1809 apprenticed himself to the proprietor of the Xeio Hampshire Patriot in Concord. Subsequently he became editor of the Concord Gazette, and in 1814 took the management of the New Hampshire Gazette at Portsmouth. He conducted the Haverhill, Mass., Gazette. 1815-17, and in May of the latter year established the Essex Patriot. In 1831 he removed to Boston, Mass., and there established the Boston Statesman which subsequently be- came the leading Democratic journal of the state. He was i)ostmaster of Boston, 1839—10 and 1845-49. He then went to Paris, France, where he lived tiU 1861 engaging in literary work. On his return to the United States he made his residence in Boston. Besides numerous poems and other contributions to periodicals, mostly under the pen-name "Boseawen," he published a number of translations including: History of Italy, by G. Sforzosi ( 1836) ; TaJes from the German (1837) ; Tales from the German, Ital- ian and French (1843); and Improvisations (^1852). He died in Boston, Mass., Nov. 29, 1877.

GREENE, Ray, senator, was born in War- wick, R.I., Feb. 2, 1765; son of William and Catharine (Ray) Greene. He was graduated from Yale in 1784, was admitted to the bar, and opened an office in Providence. He was attor- ney-general of Rhode Island, 1794-97, and on November 23 of the latter year was elected to the U.S. senate to complete the unexpired term of William Bratlford, resigned. He was re- elected in 1799 for a full term but resigned on Dec. 7, 1801, to accept the post of district judge of Rhode Island, tendered him by President Adams. Some technicality in the appointment was overlooked by President Adams and Pres- ident Jefferson refused to rectify the mistake, and Judge Greene retired. He married Mary, daugh- ter of George Flagg of Charleston, S.C. He died in Warwick, R.I., Jan. 11, 1849.

GREENE, Samuel Dana, naval oflieer, was born in Cumberland, Md., Feb. 11, 1839; son of George Sears and Martlia (Dana) Greene. He was graduated at the U.S. naval academy in 1859 and was a midshipman on the Hartford in the China squadron, 18.59-61. When the Monitor was designed by John Ericsson, Lieutenant Greene volunteered for service on that vessel and was second in command in the battle of Hampton Roads, and continued on board up to the time it foundered at sea off Hatteras, Dec. 29. 1863. He took charge of the guns in the tur- ret during the fight with the Merrimac and person- ally fired every shot up to the time of the disabling of Lieutenant Worden when he took command and directed the movements of the