The remains of Major-General Nathanael Greene . Mr. Otis Ashmore, where itnow remains. It is the identical plate fromwhich he made a tracinor and other memorandaat the time of discovery.^ The remains of General Greene were foundin the place where they were most likely to belocated. Connected as an appendage to theconfiscated estate of Lieutenant-Governor JohnGraham was a tomb in the Colonial cemetery,generally known as the Graham-Mossmanvault. It is probable that it had never been 1 Mr. Ashmores statements to the author, at Savannah, inMarch NATHANAEL GREENE. 121 used for its purpose pr
The remains of Major-General Nathanael Greene . Mr. Otis Ashmore, where itnow remains. It is the identical plate fromwhich he made a tracinor and other memorandaat the time of discovery.^ The remains of General Greene were foundin the place where they were most likely to belocated. Connected as an appendage to theconfiscated estate of Lieutenant-Governor JohnGraham was a tomb in the Colonial cemetery,generally known as the Graham-Mossmanvault. It is probable that it had never been 1 Mr. Ashmores statements to the author, at Savannah, inMarch NATHANAEL GREENE. 121 used for its purpose previous to the death ofGeneral Greene. Many years after his deathit was so used, and the reasons for such use areclearly stated in the address of Colonel Gardi-ner, previously alluded to and appended to thisreport Soon after the discoverv of these remains,steps were taken to provide for their finalinterment. Mr. Robert Tyler Waller of Savan-nah, whose wife is a lineal descendant ofGeneral Greene, in behalf of other descendantsof the General in or near Savannah, securedfrom the descendants known to him, in variousparts of the country, an expression of theirpreference for the spot where these honoredremains should be finally interred, and thereplies received by him showed that nearly allpreferred that the remains rest in the citywhere they had rested so long. The legislature of the State of Rhode Island,when the subject was referred to that body bythe Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati,which society had borne so prominent a part inthe disc
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