The remains of Major-General Nathanael Greene . ening was made through the rearbrick wall to permit entrance of light and the centre of the vault were found probablya cartload of broken bricks, which had first tobe removed. In another part of his address Colonel Gardi-ner states that The brick work had noappearance of having been broken through, buteven had an opening been effected, the vaultwould, on a cursory inspection, have appearedto be abandoned, as most of the interior wasfilled with broken brick, although how thebrick got there is a mystery. This vault was opened on Monday, Marc
The remains of Major-General Nathanael Greene . ening was made through the rearbrick wall to permit entrance of light and the centre of the vault were found probablya cartload of broken bricks, which had first tobe removed. In another part of his address Colonel Gardi-ner states that The brick work had noappearance of having been broken through, buteven had an opening been effected, the vaultwould, on a cursory inspection, have appearedto be abandoned, as most of the interior wasfilled with broken brick, although how thebrick got there is a mystery. This vault was opened on Monday, March 4,1901. Upon descending into the tomb, theworkmen found on one side a coffin in a ooodstate of preservation, on which was a silverplate bearing the name of Robert S€ott and thedate of his death, June 5, 1845, ^is age beingat that time seventy years. As had been thecustom in the examination of all the tombs, theworkmen examined with great care the dustand mold on the floor of this vault; and onthe opposite side, in the sandy soil which con-. Coffin-Plate Found Among the Remains of Gen. CtReene The original is now preserved in the rooms of the GeorgiaHistorical Society, Savannah, Ga. NATHAXAEL C4REENE. 1»>5 stituted the floor of this tomb, discovered piecesof rotted and decayed wood, mingled withwhich were the bones of a human skeleton. Upon the discovery of this mass of brokenbones and rotted wood intermingled with thesand and mold, Mr. Keenan, one of the work-men, was sent to the City Green House atNo. 608 Barnard street for a sieve with whichto separate the dust from the more substantialparts of the debris. While he was absent uponthis errand, Mr. Gattman, the other workman,picked out from among the remains a piece ofmetal, conforming in appearance to a coi^n-plate, which was badly corroded; but uponrubbing it upon his clothing to remove thecorrosion or incrustation, he was quite certainthat he could decipher the figures 1786. 1 City of Savannah,Office Park and Tree Co
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