The remains of Major-General Nathanael Greene . ssion hadreached the burial ground, where a vault hadbeen opened, the regiment filed off to rightand left, resting on their arms, with facesturned inwards, till the cofifin and pall bearersand long train of mourning citizens had passedthrough. Then the Hon. William Stevens,judge of the Supreme Court of Chatham countyand Grand Master of the Masonic fraternity,in the absence of a clergyman, for none were inthe town at the time, took his stand by the headof the coffin, and with tremulous voice read thefuneral service of the Church of th
The remains of Major-General Nathanael Greene . ssion hadreached the burial ground, where a vault hadbeen opened, the regiment filed off to rightand left, resting on their arms, with facesturned inwards, till the cofifin and pall bearersand long train of mourning citizens had passedthrough. Then the Hon. William Stevens,judge of the Supreme Court of Chatham countyand Grand Master of the Masonic fraternity,in the absence of a clergyman, for none were inthe town at the time, took his stand by the headof the coffin, and with tremulous voice read thefuneral service of the Church of the body was placed in the vault, thefiles closed, and marching up to the right ofthe vault, gave three general discharges; theartillery fired thirteen rounds, and with trailedarms all slowly and silently withdrew.^ Although so large a number of people at-tended the funeral obsequies and participatedin the deep sorrow which followed the death ofthis distinguished man, and notwithstandingthe fact that no man was more highly regarded ^ Appendix <u CO W r- r/i w ^ r- I-- r^ L_ *-? t^ ?i a- 53 ir C (U O J:; NATHANAEL GREENE. 85 or nearer to the hearts of the people than Gen-eral Greene, in a little more than thirty yearsthe place of his burial was unknown. That this was the subject of comment isshown by the reference to it by a learnedwriter, ^ as well as by the action of the town ofSavannah; for, as early as 1819, efforts weremade to ascertain the resting-place of the re-mains of General Greene, and on July 26 ofthat year the council of Savannah took actionrelative to the subject. At this time it wasstated : The frequent inquiries made by citizens andstrangers Where lie the remains of the gal-lant General Greene, who died and was buriedin your city, and the acknowledged want ofinformation on the subject imply a neglecthighly reproachful to the known patriotism andfeelings of the inhabitants, and whereas, itwould be desirable, and in fact, almost our duty,to satisfy public cur
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