. The life and heroic exploits of Israel Putnam, Major-General in the Revolutionary War. e greatestpossible caution, until, to their utter astonish-ment, they found themselves in the thickest ofthe enemy. The sentinels, discovering them,fired, and slightly wounded Durkee in the and Putnam had no alternative. They latter, being foremost, and scarcely able tosee his hand before him, soon plunged into aclay-pit. Durkee, almost at the identical mo-ment, came tumbling after. Putnam, by nomeans pleased at finding a companion, and be-lieving him to be one of the enemy, lifted histom
. The life and heroic exploits of Israel Putnam, Major-General in the Revolutionary War. e greatestpossible caution, until, to their utter astonish-ment, they found themselves in the thickest ofthe enemy. The sentinels, discovering them,fired, and slightly wounded Durkee in the and Putnam had no alternative. They latter, being foremost, and scarcely able tosee his hand before him, soon plunged into aclay-pit. Durkee, almost at the identical mo-ment, came tumbling after. Putnam, by nomeans pleased at finding a companion, and be-lieving him to be one of the enemy, lifted histomahawk to give the deadly blow, when Dur-kee, who had followed so closely as to knowhim, inquired whether he had escaped Putnam instantly recognising his voice,dropped his weapon: and both, springing fromthe pit, made good their retreat to the neigh-bouring ledges, amidst a shower of random they betook themselves to a large log, bythe side of which they lodged the remainder ofthe night. Before they lay down, Captain Put 18 LIFE, ANECDOTES, AND HEROIC EXPLOITS. CAPT. PUTNAM AND LIEUT. DURKEE S ESCAPE. p. 17. nam said he had a little rum in his canteen,which could never be more acceptable or neces-sary ; but on examining the canteen, whichhung under his arm, he found the enemy hadpierced it with their balls, and that there wasnot a drop of liquor left. The next day hefound fourteen bullet holes in his blanket. In the same summer, a body of the enemy,consisting of .six hundred men, attacked thebaggage and provision wagons at a place calledthe half-way-brook ; it being equi-distant fromFort Edward, and the south end of LakeGeorge. Having killed the oxen, and plunderedtlie wagons, they retreated with their booty,vvithout having met with such resistance as OF MAJOR-GENERAL PUTNAM. 19 might have been expected from the strength ofthe escort. General Webb, on receiving intel-ligence of this disaster, ordered the CaptainsPutnam and Rogers to take one hundredvolun
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