Chatham County GaArchives Photo Tombstone.....Greene, Nathaniel And John Maitland Monument
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Cemetery:           Colonial Park Cemetery Savannah Ga.
Name:               Greene, Nathaniel  And John Maitland

Date Of Photograph: April 2006
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The Graham Vault

Nathaniel Greene, Maj. Gen, Continental Army
John Maitland, Lt Col., 71st Regt of Scotch Foot 

   This tomb, known as the Graham Vault, posesses the disctinction of having been the burial place of 
two heroes of the Revolutionary War, one American and the other British.

     Lt. Col. John Maitland of Lauder, Scotland, son of the 6th Earl of Lauderdale, won wide 
acclaim for his feat in bringing 800 Highlanders  and Hessian troops by water from Beaufort 
to Savannah. In Sept. 1779 under the eyes of the French fleet. The timely arrival of these 
reinforcements enabled Gen. Prevost to defend Savannah against the besieging French and American forces
     Maitland died at Savannah on October 26, 1779, shortly after the seige was raised.
The British hero was buried in the vault  of the Royalist Lieutenant Governor, John Graham. 
Col. Maitland's remains were apparently removed later to another burial place.

     Nathanael Greene of Rhode Island, one of Washington's most brilliant
generals, who died on June 19, 1786, at Mulberry Grove near Savannah was also
interred in the Graham vault. Hist burial place later became the subject of conjecture
and remained so until 1901 when this tomb was opened and his remains identified. Gen. Greene's
ashes now repose beneath his monument in Johnson Square.


 
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