Civil War date signature, taken from a Civil War dated autograph album entitled, “Autographs, Contributed By General Officers of the Army & Navy of the United States. Sold at the Army Relief Bazaar, at Albany, N.Y. For the Benefit of the United States Sanitary Commission. February 22^nd 1864”.

Paper measures 3 3/8” x 2”.  Ink signature reads: “Geo. S. Greene / Brig. Gl. U.S.V.” Overall excellent condition.

George Greene was born on May 6, 1801 in Apponaug, Rhode Island. He graduated from West Point in 1819 and served in a variety of New England garrisons and as an engineering instructor at West Point until resigning in 1836 to become a civil engineer.

After rejoining the army in 1862 as colonel of the 60th New York he became a brigadier general, serving with distinction in many battles, including Chancellorsville and Antietam. Probably his finest hour was at Gettysburg, where his lone brigade successfully held the right flank of the Union army on Culp's Hill. He received a gunshot through the face at Wauhatchie.

After the war Greene returned to civil engineering, becoming president of the American Society of Civil Engineers in the 1870's. For many years he was the oldest living graduate of West Point. He died in New Jersey in 1899 and is buried in Warwick, Rhode Island.

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