The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-03-05
THREE PROMINENT GENERALS
OF EARLY DAYS

Generals Israel Putnam and Daniel
Morgan may be treated together. One
was born in Massachusetts,, the 9TH
er in New Jersey. but the wild soul
Of Morgan caused him to run away
from home when he was seventeen
years of age and settle IN the wild
woods Of Virginia, SO that in the great
war the two men were the real rep
resentatives Of the north and the
south and we're totally unlike except
when a fight was on and then they
were in absolute accord.
Putnam was as much at home at
Bunker Hill as Morgan was at the
Cowpens. Neither was a great gen.
eral but both were natural fighters,
and each, with a small command
could do all that was to be done.
Both were impetuous, Morgan was
almost reckless. Putnam in his youth
went to fight the French in Canada,
he was in Albermarle's command
that captured Havana, and when the
war Of the Revolution came and the
news Of the fight at Lexington reach
ed him, he left his pillow in the fur
row and In q single day on horse
back rode = hundred miles to join
the nucleus Of the army then forming.
While Prescott was really in com.
mand at Bunker Hill, upon Putnams
arrival, he asked Putnam, because of
his great experience. to take charge
and the two brave men worked in
perfect accord. It was Putnam who
babe the men to hold their fire
until the word was given and then to
shoot low, to aim at their waist
bands.
When Washington gave him an In
dependent command he did not do
SO well, his part was to fight as a
brigadier under orders, and he bore
the reputation of more closely exc
cutting orders than any other officer
in the army.
He fought the battles Of Guilford
Court House and Camden which
were both drawn fights, then the
British having received heavy rein
forcements, the only thing to do was
to retreat before him, but to make
such retreat as would inure to the
enemy's loss every day. Then fol.
lowed the most masterful generalship
Of the war, mAneuvers. fierce skirm.
ishes. striking at the enemy and then
getting away. and this continued all
the way across North Carolina.
Il wae like the failing back Of
Thomas from Atlanta to Nashville In
our Civil war. 80 rsss =, .,s.,
Every measure Of tho Americans
during their march from Catawbs, to
Virginia was 3udiciously designed and
vigorously executed. st1-
But when supplies snd reinforce
ments reached Greene. he turned on
his enemy and gave him no rest un-
til others came and the coils were
SO drawn that the British commander
was forced to surrender and the war
was over.
General Greene had al the ele-
ments of great commander. He
was In the Revolutionary war what
the Rock of Chickamauga, was in the
Civil war. On wider fields and with !
a great command he would have won
a place as one of the worlds great |
soldiers.
Next to Washington he was the
foremost captain of the war for in.
dependence and ma by have always
Insisted that as a soldier he was
Washington's equal If not superior.
He, at least, did the utmost that
'ould have been done with the means
him.
AS in war he was a perfect soldier
n peace he was perfect citizen and
n peace and war one whom God al
mighty gave to the world as O per-
ect man -Goodwins Weekly.