[Pharmboy]

Nathaneal Greene was awarded land in Georgia after the war as a grand "thank you," and settled there with his beautiful wife Kitty (all the "Green[e] counties throughout the US are named for him). Unfortunately, he died a few years after settling there, and she was left alone tending the farm. A few years after that, another Yankee wandered down south and stopped by Kitty Greene's farm (since she was a fellow Yankee). She gave him space to tinker in the barn. His name was Eli Whitney.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

"We fight. We get knocked down. We get up and fight again." - N. Greene (from statue behind Philadelphia Museum of Art)

He was also a good friend of Alexander Hamilton, I believe.

[SittinYonder]

I live near Greene County Georgia where the private school is Nathanael Greene Academy. I didn't know Eli Whitney "tinkered" in his barn, but that's an interesting historical footnote. Thanks for sharing the info ...

[Pharmboy]

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[Molly Pitcher]

Oh this would be great. Greene is one of my favorite Rev War heroes.

My Quaker ancestor, whose father migrated to NC in the mid 1700s, was a shipbuilder & contributed materiel to the war effort..

I admire GReene's more active contribution immensely.

[Tax-chick]

Sounds interesting! McCullough is a good researcher and a good writer.

[SunkenCiv]

The bayonets used in the war were later outlawed by the Geneva Conventions because the wounds inflicted were devastating and nearly always fatal.

Uh-oh. Killin' people in a war? That's beyond the pale.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Nathanael Greene

[FDNYRHEROES]

I grew up hearing from my father that I was somehow related to the famous General Nathaniel Greene. The folklore that ran in my family basically said that in his day, Greene was more popular than George Washington, himself. (I guess his wife Catherine had something to do with that).

It's popularly held that had Nat Greeene not suffered from heat/sun stroke while out surveying his land on a hot Georgia day, he might have become the first President of the United States. He died in 1786.

In May 1787, George Washington headed the Virginia delegation to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and was unanimously elected presiding officer. His presence lent prestige to the proceedings, and although he made few direct contributions, he generally supported the advocates of a strong central government. After the new Constitution was submitted to the states for ratification and became legally operative, he was unanimously elected president (1789).

Had Nat Greene lived and become the First President of these United States, our paper currency might have come to be known as "Greenebacks"...