Life of Israel Putnam ("old Put"), Major-General in the Continental Army
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It was not until 1849, when the "Siege of Boston" appeared, seventy-four years after the battle, that we had any fully constructed theory showing Colonel Prescott as chief commander in the battle ; and even then the theory Bunker Hill Literature and Art. 271 came forth in such a gentle and winning way, with so large and generous an appreciation of General Putnam's immense services, that the men who did not believe the theory at all could not be as cross and indignant as they wanted to be. But w...ith Colonel Samuel Swett of Boston, then a man of over sixty years, the case was different. He had put himself forth in authorship thirty years before, and his judg- ment as a man, and as a military officer, was impugned by the speculations of Mr. Frothingham. His memory reached back almost to the revolutionary days. He had been hon- orably connected with the army in the war of 18 12, and he broke forth upon this new theory in a storm of indignation, and published his pamphlet to refute it ; which led to a re- joinder on the part of Mr.
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