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Show THREE PROMINENT GENERALS OF EARLY DAYS Generals Israel Putnam and Daniel Morgan may be treated together. One was born in Massachusetts, the other oth-er in New Jersey1, but the wild soul of Morgan caused him to run away from homo when he was seventeen years of ago and settle In the wild woods of Virginia, so that in the great war tho two men were the real representatives rep-resentatives of the north and the south and were -totally unlike except when a fight wad on and then they were In absolute accord. Putnam was as much at home at Bunker Hill as Morgan was at tho Cowpens. Neither was a great general gen-eral but both wero natural fighters, and each, with a small command could do all that was to be dono. Both were impetuous, Morgan was almost reckless. Putnam in his youth went to fight the French Aa Canada, he was in Albemarle's '" "command that captured Havana, and when the war of the Revolution came and the news of tho fight at Lexington reached reach-ed him, he left his plow in the furrow fur-row and in a single day on horseback horse-back rode a hundred miles to Join the nucleus of the army then forming. While Prescott was really in command com-mand at Bunker Hill, upon Putnams arrival, he asked Putnam, because of his great experience, to take charge and the two bravo men worked in perfect accord. It was Putnam who bade the men to hold their Are until the word was given and then to shoot low, to aim at their waistbands. waist-bands. When Washington gave him an Independent In-dependent command he did not do so well, his part was to light as a brigadier under orders, and ho bore the reputation of more closely executing' exe-cuting' orders than any othor officer In the army. Ho fought tho battles of Guilford Court Houso and Cambdcn which were both drawn fights, then the British having received heavy reinforcements, rein-forcements, tho only thing to do was to retreat before him, but to mako such retreat as would inure to the enemy's loss every day. Then followed fol-lowed the most masterful generalship of the war, maneuvers, fierce skirmishes, skirm-ishes, striking at tho'ememy and then1 getting away, and this continued all-the all-the way across North Carolina. It brae like the' falling' back- of Thoniaa from Atlanta to Nashville. In our CltU war. -. - . - Every measure of the Americans duTlng-thelr march from Catawba,-to. Virginia was Judiciously designed and. vigorously executed.. t , But, when supplies and reinforcements reinforce-ments reached Greeno, ho turned on his enemy and gave him no rest until un-til others camo and the colls were so drawn that the British commander was forced to surrender and tho war was over. Genoral Greeno had all tho elements ele-ments of a great commander. Ho was In tho Revolutionary war what tho Rock of Chlckamauga, was in tho Civil war. On wider fields and with a great command ho would have won a placo as ono of tho world's great soldiers. Next to Washington ho was tho foremost captain of tho war for in-dopondenco in-dopondenco and mahy havo always insisted that as soldier ho was Washington's equal If not superior. Ho, at least, did tho utmost that could havo boom dono with tho means provided him. Ab in war ho was a porfect soldier in poaco ho wns a porfect citizen nnd in pcaco and war ono whom God almighty al-mighty gavo to tho world as n por-feet por-feet man Goodwin's Weekly. |