The Life of Nathanael Greene - Major-General in the Army of the Revolution #265903

I was born and grew up in the midst of men and women who had known my grandfather as a public and a private man, and seen him in all the various relations Of life. In my seventeenth year I became the inmate of the house of one of his dearest friends, General Lafayette. Among all who had known him I found but one Opinion both of his greatness and his goodness, of the vigor and depth of his mind, of the warmth and purity of his heart.