. History of the Seventy-sixth regiment New York volunteers; what it endured and accomplished; containing descriptions of its twenty-five battles; its marches; its camp and bivouac scenes; with biographical sketches of fifty-three officers and a complete record of the enlisted men . descended from the sameEnglish family. Five brothers laud-ed at Boston at an early day, and purchased lands upon which to settle. Butdiffering Irreconcilably upon matters of religion, they agreed to separate amica-bly, the three Worcester brothers taking the lands purchased, and dropping thefinal e, and the other t
. History of the Seventy-sixth regiment New York volunteers; what it endured and accomplished; containing descriptions of its twenty-five battles; its marches; its camp and bivouac scenes; with biographical sketches of fifty-three officers and a complete record of the enlisted men . descended from the sameEnglish family. Five brothers laud-ed at Boston at an early day, and purchased lands upon which to settle. Butdiffering Irreconcilably upon matters of religion, they agreed to separate amica-bly, the three Worcester brothers taking the lands purchased, and dropping thefinal e, and the other two retaining the final e. Thus the Greenes went toRhode Island, taking a certain amount of money. From this, the Quaker branch,came General Nathaniel Greene. The grandmother of Colonel Green, Betsey Winch, afterward Roberts, sent herthree sons to accompany her husband to the battle of Lexington, and the latternever returned. They were living within hearing of the battle-field, and werefitted out and rushed to the field after the battle commenced. Colonel N. W. Green was trained in the elementary branches at the privateschool of Harley F. Smith, of Pike, N. Y., and entered the military academy atWest Point, as a cadet, in September, 1830, in the class of Generals U. S. Grant,. 346 The Seventy-sixth Kegiment N. Y. V. Franklin, Augur, Quinby, Ingalls, Dent and Wheaton. After remaining at Academy over three years, and being remarkably proficient in his studies,when within a few months of graduation, he was accidentally injured, and pre-vented from entirely completing the course, though he had passed a highlysatisfactory examination in all the principal branches there taught. At the timehe received the injury, he was engaged in the light artillery drill introduced aboutthat time, by the celebrated Colonel Ringgold. After being thus disabled, ColonelGreen read law with Senator James R. Doolittle, then in practice in Wyomingcounty. He was afterwards connected editorially
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