A place has been waiting for Nathanael Greene in the Childhood of Famous American Series. His fame as the "second general" of the Revolution has grown steadily. He was George Washington's good right arm in all the early campaigns. When the American soldiers were cold and hungry at Valley Forge, Washington made him Quartermaster General. He called on Greene to find the supplies the needed so desperately. Somehow General Greene found them.
Then Washington sent him South, where things were going badly for the patriots. He had only "the shadow of an army" against British regulars. But General Greene kept his untrained troops together. He proved himself a master of military tactics. He drew Lord Cornwallis farther and farther from his base. In panic, the baffled British general retreated to Virginia, to the surrender at Yorktown. and the patriot bands played "The World Turned Upside Down." General Greene had hardly won a battle — but he had won the whole campaign!
This is a story about that general's boyhood, about the years when he was young Nat Greene. Nat's father had a farm, a mill, and a forge in Rhode Island. And he had a family of eight sons. As fast as the Greene boys grew big enough, they learned how to work at the family businesses, and how to manage them too. First, the farm, then the mill, then the smithy, and finally one's choice of work.
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