The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, George Sears page 401 GREENE, George Sears, soldier, was born in Apponaug, Warwick, R.I., May 6, 1801; son of Caleb and Sarah (Weekes) Greene; grandson of Caleb Greene, and a descendant in the sixth generation from John Greene, deputy-governor of Rhode Island. He was graduated from the U.S. military academy in 1823, second in his class, was assigned to service as brevet 2d lieutenant, 1st artillery, and was transferred to the 3d artillery. He was promoted 1st lieutenant, May 31, 1829; was assigned assistant professor of mathematics and engineering at the Military academy and afterward stationed at various artillery posts. He resigned from the army, June 30, 1836. He then engaged in railroad building and mining, and as engineer of the Croton aqueduct board of the city of New York. He served in this capa[p.401] city, 1856-62, building a new aqueduct over the High Bridge and a new reservoir in Central Park. He joined the volunteer army, Jan. 21, 1862, as colonel of the 60th New York and was promoted brigadier-general, April 28. He was brevetted major general of volunteers, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, and was honorably mustered out, April 30, 1866. His conspicuous services during the civil war were as brigade-commander at Cedar Mountain, Va., Aug. 9, 1862; as commander of the 2d division of the 12th corps at Antietam; as brigade-commander at Chancellorsville; as brigade-commander at Gettysburg, where at Culp's Hill he held with his brigade the right wing of the Army of the Potomac against the onslaught of more than a division of the Confederates and saved the position of the wing; and at Wauhatchie near Chattanooga, Oct. 28, 1863, where he was dangerously wounded. Upon recovering he joined the army at Newbern, N.C., January, 1865, and took part in the battle of Kinston, where he had a horse shot under him. He commanded a brigade at Goldsboro and in Slocum's corps in the march to Washington, D.C., where the army was disbanded. He was commissioner of the Croton aqueduct department and its chief engineer, 1867-71; and was chief engineer of public works, Washington, D.C., 1871-72. He was president of the American society of civil engineers. 1875-77; and president of the New York genealogical and biographical society. He was commissioned 1st lieutenant in the regular service, Aug. 2, 1894, and retired, August 11, under act of Aug. 1, 1894. He was married in 1837 to Martha, daughter of Samuel Dana of Charlestown, Mass., and three sons survived him; George Sears, Jr., Charles T. and Francis Vinton Greene. He was the oldest living graduate of the U.S. military academy in 1898. He died at Morristown, N.J., Jan. 28, 1899.