George Sears Greene

George Sears Greene, brevet major general of United States Volunteers, was honored along with the New York troops under his command, including the 60th, 78th, 102d, 137th, and 149th Regiments of Infantry forming 3d Brigade, Geary's 2d Division of Slocum's 12th Corps, and the 45th, 84th, 147th, and 157th Regiments sent to support him during the night of July 2-3, 1863, when they were also assisted by the 6th Wisconsin, 32d Illinois, and 61st Ohio, and these troops held this flank of the army against the infantry of a greatly superior force. Greene was born in 1801 and died in 1899. He entered the U.S. Military Academy as a cadet on June 24, 1819, became 2d lieutenant in the 3d U.S. Artillery on July 1, 1823, was promoted to 1st lieutenant on May 31, 1829, and resigned on June 30, 1836. During the Civil War he became colonel of the 60th New York Infantry on January 18, 1862, brigadier general of U.S. Volunteers on April 28, 1862, commanded 3d Brigade, 2d Division, Banks' Corps at the Battle of Cedar Mountain on August 9, 1862, 2d Division, Mansfield's Corps at Antietam on September 17, 1862, and 3d Brigade, 2d Division, Slocum's Corps at Chancellorsville on May 1-8, 1863, served at Gettysburg on July 1-3, 1863, and at Wauhatchie, Tennessee, on October 28, 1863, where he was severely wounded. He returned to field duty in March 1865, joined Sherman's Army in North Carolina, was in action at Kingston on March 10, 1865, commanded a provisional division until Sherman's Army was disbanded, was brevetted major general of U.S. Volunteers on March 13, 1865, and was honorarily discharged on April 30, 1866.

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