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The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], The worthy daughter of a Hero. (search)
familiar with our revolutionary history, must bear in grateful and enthusiastic memory the great services, the heroic courage, and splendid achievements of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, who led the chivalry of the South in so many terrible conflicts and glorious victories over the British. A Rhode Islander by birth, General Greene was seGeneral Greene was sent southward by General Washington as his most reliable chief, and by his brilliant generalship and virtues so endeared himself to the people of this section that he ever afterwards resided in the South, and his descendants have ever been distinguished for their devotion to the honor and rights of the South. We have now before us a letter from a venerable lady, says the New Orleans Delta, the last surviving child of Gen. Nat. Greene, who has reached the advanced age of eighty, in which, addressing one of her descendants, she uses the following noble language: "Rather than hear that Fort Moultrie was taken from South Carolina, I would have myself
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], The clerical suicide. (search)
r body of men. They were all, we have heard, from old Hanover, which has done so much to make herself renowned in our brief history. The eldest son of Captain Anderson, Richard Clough Anderson, Jr., was sent Minister to one of the South American Republics, by Mr. Monroe, about 1823, and died there. He was quite a young man, and very promising. This seems to have been a warlike family.-- Richard Clough Anderson had a younger brother, who commanded a company of Hanover troops throughout Greene's campaigns. He was in the battles of Guilford, Camden and Eutaw, and at the Siege of Ninety-Six. He went also to Georgia, with Wayne, in his expedition against the Indians, immediately after the close of the Carolina campaign. There was no braver officer in the whole army. He did not follow his brother to Kentucky, but married, lived and died in his native county of Hanover. He left one son — the venerable Col. Benjamin Anderson, of Goochland, who is still alive, and who is, therefore,