| Show i i m t 1 a I I Ni i D v vi Iru KM fl I t TI I J m HJ I i t i JI J U lJ IN AMERICAN lIfE Lift IN THE TilE CENTURY J I i iJ I 1 l lJ i t J 1 tt I l d I 1 E I 1 n a ml s rs t r I lii i iii t y y iI II a eA s 3 t l ly 1 1 y y lima ii f i t ky r 1 I 1 I i h I 1 1 tt J tear yi i ir t J 1 r Et SAMPLE OF SPELLING ra on r i hF t for tl kl 11 j of In to III ti zt Iii the th Itt I He theOf Of Cl I 1 I Hoo 1100 I 1 v I 1 i n nw Ar w I 1 J ye 2 21 1 S pt ITT 18 tt fir I i Dear II nr t night I t received a lx ator letter from Crom olio collo fo nn o re l s n r f a I I tiel 1111 H Informing run we III that thu Ihu l IY heI t nt III n t the In I Ira 1 ra iii ire J J I j and March to 10 Hack vl t i 1 s l on oil i f thou 1 11 r luk I called th the gland to 10 consult what I t h s VUN ans t beast 1 10 Io be hi duel don It U wu to I the Bolls find aul art arl char lt II j i 1 I 0 0 anti and to luno havo them ready Nud for Cor n a March at lit limo tha shortest node noli J ill Iq I J I 1 J i when wll It II tj I Ir that beast benet or on your our your our Orders I walled all 1 I 1 It Ili I Wine some thu for far further huh but non lion on I rod down to 10 Kings 1 fury fary Car fin I i i II 1 and on my m way met act III 4 I men meu with liar hot hor ns loti with 1 going bark I 1 i II C rt 1 f r t iT 1 ii Into to the Ih Coli 11 which said they Ih CHili from within 2 mild miles to 10 F el j Ip 41 I l r It who cold the th had hud rom ram nut out of ot new York In 3 6 Inn col IJ 1 II ti t I et loins louts won non III Ion onu by hy th Ih the way of oC and won von by and won un unI I allItt 1 i Y or i hall had Ron gon Into the Jury Juno Jur ys Jer yi I J Just nt lIt ns o n I 1 hot I 1 got Kot to tho tarry furry I melt 1 t till t C t I won Capt at apt Jonston with II a I ator from colic tollo hay In Colonel C lilt which In 1 7 had h ad lI i I jt I f r I t t it l L tonne I me m the L elms Kill gut K A n x fur tUI us na chunh and 1111 a tx In InI I It Ir 1 I tamped there and It wild s ld that thay war w cr were for tor a n wind w to bring all ull ui f I y II i n I I the th ships x h the thO are 11 nil Rh th the cheap and anI hol they thay can canIn ilice h III J p I 1 aI 1 In this should be h l glad of ot your l orders what to do dor doi r i t f d III e i i 1 J run rim fir 11 with the th 1 ll wn In 4 t tit I It l j Y Your ur II I I Y I I 1 j tc UI r t PUTNAM j rot I lI j I I I s si I J or of i Int I 1 V Y r i l T Is IM remarkable hl h how clues a t par parallel 11 r r I I IT I cnn can be b bI 1 e drawn l between twe m the tl j the th cH chi f 1 r I I J n of oC n f N x I f and nd the th gen generals 1 assort I c I J of or a Yearly Nearly ev every v sr pH P r I 1 t 1 t r l 0 ery re 1 one of oC the lite commanders In ht the t tI til lim h e t I t l had hl hi lib proto prole prototype il C utIl t I b d I l American revolution i 1 t won p II N t typo type the th generals of at division Si 1 bribe I t I 1 t t or of ot brigade under With tt iI oJ I of f In III the Ih army of oC there wee wan wann WUI I r 1 Ili flying tug Jf a a n man larm untutored big bluff MINI and 1 brave mutter Ili r t I I j who perhaps was WIO C tone more n beloved Cal by h the tho I f by iv dr l r t 1 5 common moon soldier than any other In ho nil MII the thu legions of ot the greet He lie II j vest ar e r n could read very and write rues l I III m 11 Sa hino n l o I 1 When 11 11 he ha Old did write writ It Il was WK for rOI rOIi I i hin II I 1 to his bis He lie lieI I antes 1 had Ills hili own corn style atIt at 01 St letters and Cud Ilia hie own on method oil or of t the His wife wit could neither read nor 1101 write but Mlle I nn nil a favorite In the Grandc I Armeo Armen as ns n wa was her hr hue hus eland n I Thin The man w wall wag s I febvre Mar of oC France I Duke fluke of 01 Dentate II laic the thea i nin was rae s ster hi hie wire wife a the th its Darnel 1 bet bel bettor tor ter known today toda as aM Madam Bant Han Ban Gene t In America Americo Israel 1 litH fl Putman wa I Li 1 t He Ill was wim II a SIC much t beIo d he us lie bluff cluff as AM big BH Re hm almost an ux u untutored 1 No 10 ruiN mien of ot nn lules foie I of ot ortho orthography 1 S I 1 I graphy hampered the th Yankee general e There IK hi milling mom mure stran r noth eth nothing h I er i r ing m more mol ore ludicrous than his him hl letters Ills hIli reports rt us In It Inthe Inthe Ita J a the ul II vm os Hi t I most moat character of ot Amer American Amerlean lean ican life In the Ih eighteenth century As 1 11 Madame Sans Gene ane followed tollow her husband huband fortunes fortune In the Mold field 1 end and was the Idol nt or the th common COlli lOon soldiers Idles nn so nn too ton tonIt It wen was S with the wife of ot Putnam Site She Sh died lIeI In the camp on the th Hudson As All n a 1 eddler 10 Israel I I Putnam never can enn Iw he I ranked high lie lla never wn w na i fit nt fitted ted led for the Iho po to 10 which he lie Willi w RC Ho lie never ner should hould hout have havo been 11 n R major general In the army of oC the revolution It Is la doubt doubtful doubtful ful rul whither whether he woe Willi hitch even evon for COI u p brigadier eral oh III No Na one knew his hie hi I II raI better than Washington No 10 one on had lee lean I idea Iden of oC It than Putnam Put Pul Putnam nam Hut Jul lie he h wee was a II figure In III Inthe the War Ver RI of ot Independence nevertheless lie He blundered every now end and then blundered hut but hits his hi were errors error fro nf ot the Ih head and nd not nol of the th hart hall There wee was never a R braver a amore amere more mere patriotic soldier than old 01 Israel Putnam No 10 man endeavored more As 1 a major or as a n A colonel tie III would have been hn magnificent He II simply Imply wee was lint not the Ih born commander He II I could u 1 1 handle email bodies bod It of or men lIIn admirably ebbs ably hut tint large ones ice him hum He lie Hewan Hewa wan wR he acted on fm Impulse tint riot through direful careful study and ran roll rens He lie II differed from Lefebvre In only o one on n re nr particular Lefebvre always aln n I orders sometimes a Putnam did s s not nol The 1111 Md old witch h town of or Salem that has M given many BUOY grout great m 11 to In I the tit th world wort l Little in Romance to tto Surpass the Experiences of Old Put Once Tied to the Stake and the Fagots Set Ablaze by Indians Who Started to Burn Barn Him After He Had Been Toma Tomahawked Tomahawked Tomahawked hawked c I j r t tI I A t b Li Liy y n 4 1 1 r Y I wr Jr 9 I 4 a I lr I DUI M I P z 11 B Y 71 Q L A M G q WAR tl hl hi birthplace brt l r It Is he ngo to think that he lie should l have ha been so odd add odda adda a writer and nn 1 s In en atrocious a n nw e r w when hen hell his Isla people I M n n In were avers among limon the lend lendern erg ern Ill In lu that nl settlement well ell to tolo todo lo do It nolI educated coil AnI cultured Hut BUl ut If f ho did not lIot learn lArn to tn rend and write welt veil In old Salem town he lie certainly lid 1111 II I learn how huts to 10 bo be healthy and strong lie Ile le was wall a massive powerful man with ft n I greAt treat head 1 and delighted tel l In feats fen t a of Just Juet after ho reached ra his hie seniority majority ho hn emigrated II to 10 Pomfret Conn and It 11 wan wite there that ha he distinction by b a wolf hunt that lint hoe has become one of tit the classic le of oC New In tho the Trench french and 1111 1 Indian wars ware that thAl began egan In 1766 and lasted heisted for Cor seven years yearn got his hla first military exper erper X 1 Ilice He Ile II went out ns IS a n as 1 lieutenant In Ina a Connecticut company and served lat at first ns ae n a ranger fRn 1 under thorn Intrepid commanders Lord and len fieri 1 Putnam fought f nun tit the Ihl Ind lane fought the slid lId a little scalping now and then hell just Jut ns as did slid th the I e enemy was 10 caught In ambush several times lines find had some marvelous escapes Irons from rom death tint bat It Willi ens not nol until he h hind had been beun eun In the service males three that he h 10 through one of ot the Ih most rell adventures df that n It man manes es Ir n r has hns undergone And lived to t rate rAIl In a n 1 tight fight near I lake ike George Putnam was attacked by an Rn Indian chief As Ax ho the th Indian rushed ru herl upon him with turn tour tomahawk uplifted Putman leveled isle his hisgun gun and pulled milled the tho trigger but It lire lit The Th next nt Instant the thin was upon him and bore him to tn he tho earth rth With Ith the assistance of oC M e earch arch ral rAI other Indians Putnam was as bound boundo to 10 o n It tr tree no en that thet during the remainder of ot the hr battle ball It that swept to 10 and fro fros If ae s one side or the other gained a ns all thin the Ih tree II to tn which w Putnam sax VOH tied lied wee w near nAr the center of or the tho th Half If a dozen times Putnam Put Iut name nam friends trot got ot within 10 or JO YO 0 feet or of f him but they wro vere always borne balk back ck by the Ih tide tIl of oC battle In to one on of nt he the tilt singed aln of or the th fight 11 Ih t the th li livere ere vere driven 1 n far bark and a n French of or officer n f firer nee r approached hel the tree II where Put Putnam Putnam nam onus was we hound bound and el taunted him w with Ith ho tho defeat der eat of oC his Isla party and amused himself IA by 11 throwing Isle Ills hi tomahawk a al t I the th helpless prisoner seeing how close clot he h could come without hitting him ilm and anil tenting his nerve Ruins Putnam I I the Ih 1 to kill him If It h he le Intended to do so no and soil put Pitt him out of his hi misery but the Frenchmen Frenchman re rP rell ll d by II striking the th captive a II terrific low blow fin on the Jaw with the th butt of or hi Isla hili musket Then The hr iii h left Itt him Putnam 1 Jaw Jew wee a broken A little later an en Indian came lIn along end and amused l him by In II throwing throw hi h its knife nt Rt w t the th vic wIc victim Ie tim this Then another Indian appeared 1 and wantonly drove 1101 a tomahawk Into cheek scarring earring lI arlin him him for far life At 1 last lest when whets the th French tt and Indians urs saw that hut I tho tuft fight woes was going Iohl against them ther n they released Putnam anti took tonk him with them theca on nil their retreat They The loaded him with heavy beery hI burdens burden He fie n hest nothing to Ml set t fora for B II tong long time ills His captors stripped d him of nt his hue moccasins and he h ins relied 1 with bleeding fret feet all ell that night They continued their heir retreat at unlit until they were well away from the th scene lIe of nt battle batt I The next nett day the tha chief 1111 who h had captured Putnam amen appeared and Putnam asked that thill It If death were to tn tolie lie bP h his hili portion he h might be bp killed At once and thus thu b I to spared need nd needless less leas I R torture The chief chlor relieved the tho man of or Isle his burdens promis promised ed NI him hIns better bolter treatment and octal acted toward Inward him In the mot meet humane roan man manner ner nel After ho had departed however wine some of ot the other othel a wl HI l to 10 burn the tho prisoner They The tied him to a tree tre brought and andset set eel thorn them A shower came ram up and anft extinguished the fame 11 10 When hn the ruin rain hall had passed the IndIan Indians rekindled died the tire lira Putnam was not nol tied 10 so 0 tightly that t he hr could 1 not move mn some somewhat what AH the th t rN darted artemi d at nl him hlen n on n none Aux one ho would train strain at Isle hIli bonds arnd dip III r Oln n nil as far fal ns ar a possible Into Hut But huts Hutt t s OOn onn x n the Ire fire on the th other ohr side elfin 81 1 let no alternative to tn choose choos between and ho was despairing of oC his life lite when sud sul suddenly denly a French officer named Mann bettor better known Iown among the th Indians ns n canto came daubing up Ho Ito heard heardt from t r nn t an In Indian t 1 hoy ho of or the thin plan to burn Putnam antI and had hastened had to prevent the barbarity Ho no kicked tho the faggots to one nilI side released Putnam and th the Indians with death If IC they th maltreated him him further But Hut although Putnam was relieved from Cram Immediate tf danger of oC death dath he was wall In Ina Ina a very vr way Wf He Ire had been heon terribly ter tor terribly burned and his Isla hi wounds had left heft him so o weak Ak end and exhausted that hn ho could hardly hardt stand shot In III addition lIlIon to that Isle his hI broken Jaw J lets IV prevented preached him from eating Cau the Indian chief who had hael captured him HINI oil him hACk back to health He Ire 11 soaked bis biscuit so n that Putnam Sham could 1 v the tho food without trouble Throughout the th remainder of oC the long Ion I march to Montreal he h was ts ea ns n careful of or Isle his hi Isler prisoner r t rl goner ollEr a x e though ho hn II hind lind been a n 1 nho l be be For 1111 five Of or nr six Ix months month PutnAm woe 1 a captive In III Montreal t uni i then was re in e rat And returned to tn 1 t isle his home homo In Connecticut nut Hut Inn In n few ro months he ho was Riven n R command and ones once one more moro was WAil w eis n R forest ranger He lie had hal been pro Iro promoted mated In to the rank rAni of or major When hn the blunderers and I Aber Aher Abercromble were supplanted by h Amherst the whole phase ph a of oC the th war woe was A changed chanced and PutnAm rerun came Into lilt n a good deal of or prominence He lie II h hind d the tho confidence of ot Amherst and was one of or tin the most men man among amon hiss his hI lieu lie lieutenants tenants He lie II took look part In capture or of and In the Invasion of oC Canada by bl way was lR of or I Lela Ontario When lhnn t made mAh his hi attack on an Montreal services wore were If Invaluable A French 1 warship speared at nt tho the eastern end nd of or Lake Ontario Am Amheist heist were wr In III II a serious plight Putnam to Amherst that If IC hr be sv give h him n few men mn and n taw few we he LP h would s s put nut the Ih war warship wa r ship c 11 out of ot 10 h t laughed laughed at lit the thO Ides Idea R but hili that night Putnam and 1111 three picked men me In a n small email hot bout crept stealthily under tinder thin the III stern of ot the th warship With the thO tie h a so litO fouled her hel rudder rr that the lite th next day dav da the lire vessel was wan After that Amherst t believed that Putnam proposed was we RII pee ble tile With the th close chore rk of or the III French and ana In Indian hen dian war w r 1 Putnam tan Yi able to give Ie nl at attention to ills his hi fern for tOI a n year al or so Ito hut but iU Rt the tile lift sign of ot hostilities hoc t I ha ho back nt at the Ih front once more morp This time lints n It RM In n nn an of or Cuba He lie II OA second In command of nr the Ih Con Connecticut Cn n ton four that Joined with the th reg mR regulars ulars In the Ilic lf leR oC or Havana The ship hip In which he hI sailed wn WOR w ne wrecked by b n R hurricane on the const coast of ot Cuba CUM and he h and his command drifted about on raft rRth for Tor days dl narrowly escaping becoming food fond for tor shark For three days they were marooned noar without food or nr wader tr Then the storm subsided ed oil e l and Rn l they lIy were picked up tip by h tin the Heel beet The Th of or wet cost snore hen fives through dl ca o than bv be b bullets nearly nearby of or the foe fol e lying dying from rein or yellow show fever before the of oC the th city There Thre never won was an as emptier and noel poorer Vic Victory k tory tor for fn threat gave up Ul Cu ul soon fOOn after the th taking of or Havana Putnam returned to Conne Hi ut ul poorer than when hon he departed but that lid 1111 nut |
