Biographies
Alderman, Clifford Lindsey. Retreat to victory: the life of Nathanael Greene. Philadelphia: Chilton Book Co., 1967.
Bailey, Ralph Edgar. Guns over the Carolinas: the story of Nathanael Greene. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1967.
Caldwell, Charles. Memoirs of the Life and Campaigns of the Hon. Nathanael Green, Major General in the Army of the United States and Commander of the Southern Department in the War of the Revolution. Philadelphia: Robert Desilver, 1819.
Carbone, Gerald M. Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American Revolution. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Golway, Terry. Washington’s General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution. 1st ed. New York: H. Holt, 2005.
Greene, Francis Vinton. General Greene. Great Commanders. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1893.
Greene, George Washington. Life of Nathanael Greene: Major-General in the Army of the Revolution. Cranbury, N.J.: The Scholar’s Bookshelf, 2007.
Leeman, William P. Rhode Island’s controversial general: Nathanael Greene and the Continental Congress, 1776-1780.Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society, 2001. https://storage.googleapis.com/stateless-www-rihs-org/2020/02/2001_Aug.pdf.
Massey, Gregory D., ed.; Piecuch, Jim, ed. General Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution in the South. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2012.
Moring, Leigh M. Nathanael Greene in South Carolina: hero of the American Revolution. Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, 2016.
Roe, Clara Goldsmith. Major General Nathanael Greene and the Southern Campaign in the American Revolution, 1780-1783. University of Michigan,1943. Copy at the Society of Cincinnati Library, Washington, DC.
Simms, William Gilmore. The Life of Gen. Greene – Major General in the Army of the Revolution. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1856.
For historiographical background on this biography, http://simms.library.sc.edu/view_item.php?item=144664
Thane, Elswyth. The Fighting Quaker: Nathanael Greene. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1972.
Thayer, Theodore. Nathanael Greene, strategist of the American Revolution. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1960.
Treacy, M. F. Prelude to Yorktown: The Southern Campaign of Nathanael Greene, 1780-1781. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1963
Tucker, Spencer. Rise and fight again: the life of Nathanael Greene. Wilmington, De: ISI Books, 2009.
Waters, Andrew. The Quaker and the gamecock: Nathanael Greene, Thomas Sumter, and the revolutionary war for the soul of the South. Havertown, PA: Casemate Publishers, 2019.
Memoirs and Papers
Showman, Richard K, Margaret Cobb, and Robert E. McCarthy, eds. The Papers of Nathanael Greene. Vol. I. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1976.
Guide to the Scholarly Resources microfilm edition of the papers of General Nathanael Greene, part I: 1766-July 1780 / Rhode Island Historical Society. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 1989.
The papers of General Nathanael Greene / Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; Showman, Richard K., ed.; Conrad, Dennis Michael, 1949- ed. / Rhode Island Historical Society. — Chapel Hill: Published for the Rhode Island Historical Society [by] University of North Carolina Press, 1976-2005. Text and microfilm versions are located at the Society of the Cincinnati, Washington, DC.
Eulogy by Alexander Hamilton delivered on July 4, 1789 at a meeting of the New York Society of Cincinnati in which Martha Washington (George was indisposed), John and Abigail Adams and various members of Congress were in attendance. Hamilton heaps high praise on Greene including the following description of his character.
“The vigor of his genius corrsponding with the importance of the prize to be contended for, overcame natural moderation of his temper, and though not hurried-on by enthusiasm, but animated by an enlightened sense of the value of free government, he chearfully resolved to stake his fortune his hope his life and his honor upon an enterprise of the danger of which he knew the magnitude in a cause which was worthy of the toils and the blood of heroes.”
The eulogy celebrates Greene’s accomplishments through his Continental Army service in both the northern and southern theaters.
