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The Center's annual 2019-2020 Crozer Lecture will take place on Thursday, January 23, at 5 PM in the Small Special Collections Library auditorium at UVA. Historian A. Wilson Greene will give a talk titled “‘A Perfect Hell of Blood’: The Battle of the Crater.” Greene is the former president of the Pamplin Historical Park and the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier and author of The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign.
The event is free and open to the public and no advance registration is required. Paid parking is available nearby at the Central Grounds Parking Garage located near the UVA bookstore.
Copies of Greene's newest book, A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg, Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater (UNC Press, 2018), will be available for purchase and there will be a chance to meet the author and have your book signed after our event concludes.
This lecture is generously funded by William F. Crozer ’07.
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William G. Greene
American businessman
William G. Greene Jr. | |
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Greene in 1860 | |
| Born | 1812 (1812) |
| Died | 1894 (aged 81–82) |
| Resting place | Greenwood Cemetery (East), Tallula, Illinois |
| Other names | "Sticky Bill" |
| Spouse | Louisa Greene |
| Children | 9 |
William G. "Slicky Bill" Greene Jr.[1]: 44 (1812–1894) was an American businessman who was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln. He did business in Menard County, Illinois.[2] Greene founded Tallula, Illinois in 1857, and Greenview, Illinois is named after him.[3]
Greene, along with his brother L.M. Greene, and William F. Berry, attended Illinois College in Jacksonville.[1]: 29
By September 1831, Greene's parents lived 2 miles (3 km) southwest of New Salem; Greene, then age 19, was hired by recent arrival Abraham Lincoln to assist at Lincoln's mill and store.[1]: 44 In earl
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The Boys: William G. Greene (1812-1894)
William Greene first met Mr. Lincoln in 1830 when he started working for Denton Offutt. At the Offut store, according to Herndon, “William G. Green[e] was hired to assist him, and between the two a life-long friendship sprang up. They slept in the store, and so strong was the intimacy between them that ‘when one turned over the other had to do likewise.”1 Historian Michael Burlingame described Greene as “a highly entertaining story berättare. Green’s main duty at the store was to assess applicants for kredit. The three young dock [Lincoln, Greene, and Charles Maltby] slept at the store and took meals at Bowling Green’s home, three-quarters of a mile from the village. Greene found his tall colleague ‘attentive – Kind – generous & accommodating,’ and recalled that he and Lincoln ‘slept on the same cott & when one turned over the other had to do likewise.’”2
One day in 1833, William Greene was offered the contents of Reuben Radford&