GREENE, GEORGE SEARS ( 1801-99 ) . An American soldier and civil engineer; father of Gen. Francis V. Greene. He was born in War wick, R. I., graduated at West Point in 1823, where for several years he was an instructor, and in 1836 resigned from the service to become a civil engineer. He was engaged in the construc tion and location of railroads in Maine, Massa chusetts, Rhode Island, New York. and Mary land until 1857, when he entered the service of the Croton aqueduct department of New York City. He subsequently built the reservoir in Central Park, and the enlargement of High Bridge. In 1862 he reentered the Union Army as colonel of the Sixtieth New York Volunteers, was made a brigadier-general soon afterwards, com manded his brigade at Cedar Mountain, and led a division at Antietam. At Gettysburg he was stationed on the right wine of the Federal army, and on the night of July 2, 1863, withstood an attack by a superior force of Confederates. In
September of the same year (1863) he was transferred to the West, and on October 28th, during an engagement near Chattanooga, received a wound which disabled him till January, 1865. He then joined General Sherman's army in North Carolina, and took part in the operations lead ing to General Johnston's surrender. In 1866 be retired from the army, and was chief engineer and commissioner of the Croton aqueduct de partment from 1867 until 1871, when he was appointed chief engineer of public works in Washington, D. C. General Greene designed the plan for the entire sewerage of that city (1871 73). From 1875 to 1877 he was president of the American Society of Civil Engineers.