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Title: "Old Put" The Patriot

Author: Frederick A. Ober

Release Date: November 11, 2005 [EBook #17049]

Language: English

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"OLD PUT"

THE PATRIOT

BY

FREDERICK A. OBER

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

_ILLUSTRATED_

NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

1904

Copyright, 1904, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

_Published, September, 1904_

CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE

I.--Birthplace and Youth 1

II.--"Old Wolf Putnam" 11

III.--First Taste of War 25

IV.--A Partizan Fighter 39

V.--The Adventurous Soldier 53

VI.--Fighting on the Frontier 65

VII.--Strategy and Woodcraft 79

VIII.--A Prisoner and in Peril 92

IX.--A Campaign in Cuba 106

X.--Tavern-Keeper and Oracle 120

XI.--On the Side of His Country 134

XII.--At the Battle of Bunker Hill 150

XIII.--Holding the Enemy at Bay 171

XIV.--In Command at New York 184

XV.--Washington's Chief Reliance 198

XVI.--Defending the Hudson Highlands 212

XVII.--Last Years in the Service 226

XVIII.--The Disabled Veteran 243

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING
PAGE

"Old Put" escaping from the British at Horseneck _Frontispiece_

The Wolf Den at Pomfret, Connecticut 18

Fort near Havana where the Colonials landed 112

Israel Putnam 188
_From a painting by Trumbull._

Statue to General Putnam at Brooklyn, Connecticut