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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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urrounded thegrounds, and it contained many substantial brick tombs wherein were deposited the remains of the honored dead of Savannah. In time, however, it fell into disuse, for burialsthere were prohibited by the city. It becameovergrown with weeds, and its graves were entirely neglected. Many tombs had fallen down from decay, and others had been brokeninto by boys and desecrated, in some instances bones being thrown around the orround. Grave-stones were prostrated and broken, and in many cases the dates upon them changed. The entire burial ground bore evidence of long neglect. Those laying claim to the ground wereevidently averse to expending any money in its care; and the city denied the right of owner-ship, likewise refrained from the expenditure ofany money on the Gods acre Where the dustof the colonists and their descendants lay. ^ During the War of the Rebellion, when Shermans army occupied Savannah after the ^ History of the City Government of Savannah, Thomas Gamble, Jr., p. 3S7.
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Tomb within which the Remains of Gen. Greene were found, Colonial Park, Savannah, Ga. (Savannah's Colonial Park Cemetery) Photograph by Peter G. Leist. ^ NATHANAEL GREENE. 97 march to the sea, this tract of land, as well as the various parks and squares in the city,were used as camping grounds for a portion ofShermans army. Tents and rough shelters were set up, and even the tombs in this buryingground were occupied by the soldiers.Gen. Sherman, in his memoirs, says: ^ Mr. Stanton (Edwin M.) staid in Savannah several days, and seemed very curious aboutmatters and things in general. I walked withhim through the city, especially the bivouacs of the several regiments that occupied thevacant squares, and he seemed particularly pleased at the ingenuity of the men in constructing their temporary huts. Four of the dog tents, or teiites aabi^i, buttoned together,served for a roof, and the sides were made ofclapboards or rough boards brought from demolished houses or fences. I remember his marked admiration for the hut of a soldier wh

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