Nathanael Greene - Greensboro, NC
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Quick Description: Nathanael Greene (August 7, 1742 – June 19, 1786) was a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War.
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Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 6/4/2009 8:51:56 PM
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Long Description:There are countless cities, counties, and parks named in honor of
Nathanael Greene across America. In addition, there have been four
Coast Guard revenue cutters named for him. There was also the
Navy's USS Nathanael Greene, a James Madison-class nuclear
submarine (decommissioned in 1986). Other vessels include an Army
cargo ship, hull number 313 (1904), Liberty class steam merchant
(1942), which was sunk by a U-boat during World War II, and a
128-foot Army tug, USAV MG Nathanael Greene (LT 801), which is
still in service today.
A monument (under which his remains are interred) to Greene
stands in Johnson Square in Savannah (1829). His statue, with that
of Roger Williams, represents the state of Rhode Island in the
National Hall of Statuary in the Capitol at Washington; in the same
city there is a bronze equestrian statue of him by Henry Kirke
Brown at the center of Stanton Park. There is a small statue of
Greene by Lewis Iselin, Jr. in front of the Philadelphia Museum of
Art.
He is also memorialized by an equestrian statue designed by
Francis H. Packard at the site of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse
near what is now Greensboro, North Carolina, the city named after
him. Greeneville, Tennessee is also named after him. In 2006, the
city of Greenville, South Carolina, also named for him, unveiled a
statue of Greene designed by T. J. Dixon and James Nelson at the
corner of South Main and Broad Streets.
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