The Patowmac Guardian, And Berkeley Advertiser

ANECDOTE OF GEN. PUTNAM.

AFTER one of the skirmishes, in which the Americans had been successful, an English officer was left most dangerously wounded on the field of action;
and when the victorious party came up, they were embarrassed to know how they should remove him, in such a mangled state, to some town where he might have the assistance he required. Putnam, who had been bred a carpenter, immediately threw off his regimentals, and having a hatchet accidentally at hand, cut down several saplings, which he grooved together, having no way of fastening them, and thus made a kind of cradle, in which the wounded officer was conveyed with the greatest possible ease, to a neighbouring town, where he recovered under the care of a surgeon. When Putnam heard of his recovery, and that it was owing to his humane care, without which he must have bled to death in the removal, he said, I then glory more in having been bred a Carpenter, than I should do if I had been born a Prince!