The American monthly magazine . ?^s^ ?^if^rAs.^&Mt. -v?^f?>-i-. :w%j /Itt ^ «St ?--?^••^Tufi^n- -f«teii^ CHRISTOPHER GREENE. 521 CHRISTOPHER GREENE, THE HERO OF RED Mary A. Greene.* Representing Casper Chapter in the Continental Congress, Feb. 24th, iSgj. ? In the autuijin of 1775, a hardy band of eleven hundred menwere toiling through the primeval forests of Maine and laden with ammunition, boats and provisions, theytraversed the untrodden wilderness, which not a -white man hadever before penetrated. They were the Canadian expedition ofthe Revolution, bound for Qu
The American monthly magazine . ?^s^ ?^if^rAs.^&Mt. -v?^f?>-i-. :w%j /Itt ^ «St ?--?^••^Tufi^n- -f«teii^ CHRISTOPHER GREENE. 521 CHRISTOPHER GREENE, THE HERO OF RED Mary A. Greene.* Representing Casper Chapter in the Continental Congress, Feb. 24th, iSgj. ? In the autuijin of 1775, a hardy band of eleven hundred menwere toiling through the primeval forests of Maine and laden with ammunition, boats and provisions, theytraversed the untrodden wilderness, which not a -white man hadever before penetrated. They were the Canadian expedition ofthe Revolution, bound for Quebec and led by General BenedictArnold, whose splendid courage in this campaign was to befinally eclipsed by his treachery to his country. But no hintof this had as yet darkened his fame. Commanding one ofthe three divisions of this little army was Christopher Greene,of Warwick, Rhode Island, a gentleman of education and cul-ture who had served his town in the State Legislature forseveral 5^ears. He had responded, together with his comrad
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