The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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The worthy daughter of a Hero.

--All who are 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 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 dragged there and sit on the parapet until the last gun was fired."

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