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"OLD PUT"

THE PATRIOT

BY

FREDERICK A. OBER

AUTHOR OF CRUSOE'S ISLAND, THE STORIED WEST INDIES, PUERTO RICO AND ITSRESOURCES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

1904

Copyright, 1904, by

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Published, September, 1904

"Old Put" escaping from the British at Horseneck

CONTENTS

• —Birthplace and Youth
• —"Old Wolf Putnam"
• —First Taste of War
• —A Partizan Fighter
• —The Adventurous Soldier
• —Fighting on the Frontier
• —Strategy and Woodcraft
• —A Prisoner and in Peril
• —A Campaign in Cuba
• —Tavern-Keeper and Oracle
• —On the Side of His Country
• —At the Battle of Bunker Hill
• —Holding the Enemy at Bay
• —In Command at New York
• —Washington's Chief Reliance
• —Defending the Hudson Highlands
• —Last Years in the Service
• —The Disabled Veteran

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"Old Put" escaping from the British at Horseneck

The Wolf Den at Pomfret, Connecticut

Fort near Havana where the Colonials landed

Israel Putnam
From a painting by Trumbull.

Statue to General Putnam at Brooklyn, Connecticut