{"id":2562,"date":"2012-12-26T16:38:04","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T16:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2017-04-12T10:04:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T14:04:57","slug":"revolutionary-war-recollections-in-newspapers-remembering-general-putnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/revolutionary-war-recollections-in-newspapers-remembering-general-putnam.html","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionary War Recollections in Newspapers: Remembering General Putnam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t fire until you see \u201cthe color of their eyes\u201d<\/em>\u2014Colonial General Israel Putnam.<\/p>\n

Isaac Basset fought with General Putnam at the Battle of Bunker Hill near Boston on 17 June 1775, an early battle in the American Revolutionary War. Although technically a British victory, they suffered more than twice as many casualties as the Colonial forces\u2014who proved by their fierce fighting throughout the battle that they were willing and able to stand up to the experienced British troops.<\/p>\n

Isaac Basset remembered the fighting well, and the stirring command of General Putnam that the Colonial troops not \u201cfire on the enemy till they could see the color of their eyes, and then for every man to make sure of his mark.\u201d<\/p>\n

Years later, Basset and other soldiers who fought to gain America\u2019s independence gave their recollections of their experiences in the Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n

\"Revolutionary<\/a>
Boston Centinel (Boston, Massachusetts), 5 August 1818, page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

General Putnam was one of the true heroes of the Revolutionary War, and was even briefly in command of all the American forces before George Washington took over. He is honored to this day: parks, towns and taverns are named for him.<\/p>\n

\"illustration<\/a>
Image: General Putnam Escaping the British at Greenwich, Connecticut. Credit: Wiki Commons, Israel Putnam, Project Gutenberg eText 17049.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Get more recollections about General Putnam<\/a> and other famous Revolutionary War<\/a> heroes in historical newspaper articles at GenealogyBank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article about American General Israel Putnam and the Battle of Bunker Hill on 17 June 1775 during the Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12235],"tags":[6713,1902,2916,2914,2020],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-american-history","tag-american-revolutionary-war","tag-battle-of-bunker-hill","tag-israel-putnam","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/illustration-1226-2012-featured-graphic-battle-bunker-hill.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}