Biographies
Bates, Albert C, ed. The Two Putnams: Israel and Rufus in the Havana Expedition 1762 and in the Mississippi River Exploration 1772-73 with Some Account of The Company of Military Adventurers. Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society, 1931.
Cruson, Daniel. Putnam’s Revolutionary War Winter Encampment: The History and Archaeology of Putnam Memorial State Park. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2011.
Cutter, William. The Life of Gen. Putnam. 4th ed. Boston: John Philbrick, 1854.
Dean, Leon W. Old Wolf: The Story of Israel Putnam. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1942.
Dwight, Allan. Soldier and Patriot: The Life of General Israel Putnam. New York: Ives Washburn, Inc., 1965.
Fellows, John. The Veil Removed or Reflections on David Humphrey’s Essay on the Life of Israel Putnam. Reprinted. New York: James D. Lockwood, 1843.
Hill, George Canning. The Life of Israel Putnam. New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1903.
Hubbard, Robert Ernest. Major General Israel Putnam: Hero of the American Revolution. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2017.
Humphreys, David. An Essay on the Life of the Honourable Major-General Israel Putnam: Addressed to the State Society of the Cincinnati in Connecticut and Published by Their Order. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2000.
Livingston, William Farrand. Israel Putnam: Pioneer, Ranger and Major General. New York: G. P. Putnan’s Sons, 1901.
Niven, John. Connecticut Hero, Israel Putnam. Connecticut Bicentennial Series 22. Hartford: American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Connecticut, 1977.
Peabody, Oliver W. B. Life of Israel Putnam. Reprinted. Boston: Marsh, Capen, Lyon and Webb, 1839.
Procknow, Eugene. “General Israel Putnam: Reputation Revisited.” Journal of the American Revolution, August 11, 2016. https://allthingsliberty.com/2016/08/general-israel-putnam-reputation-revisited/.
Putnam, Daniel. Colonel Daniel Putnam’s Letter Relative to the Battle of Bunker Hill And. Place of publication not identified: Nabu Press, 2010.
Smith, Fredrika Shumay. Old Put: The Story of Major General Israel Putnam. Rand McNally & Company, 1967.
Tarbox, Increase N. Life of Israel Putnam (“Old Put”), Major-General in the Continental Army. Boston, MA: Lockwood, Brooks, and Company, 1876.
Memoirs and Papers
Israel Putnam papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
Herbert Putnam Papers, Library of Congress, Manuscript Division
“‘Curnul Putnum Com & Ordered Us Down.’” Accessed May 29, 2017. http://boston1775.blogspot.com/2017/05/curnul-putnum-com-ordered-us-down.html.
“Founders Online: To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 20 January….” Accessed January 31, 2017. http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-13-02-0251.\
Sabin, Joseph, ed. “Memoirs of the Life, Adventures and Military Exploits of Israel Putnam, Senior Major-General in the Revolutionary Army of the United States, and next in Rank to General Washington.” In Bibliotecha Americana, Reprinted., 119. Ithaca, N.Y: Mack & Andrus, 1834.
United States, and Israel Putnam, eds. General Orders Issued by Major-General Israel Putnam, When in Command of the Highlands, in the Summer and Fall of 1777. The American Revolutionary Series. American and French Accounts of the American Revolution. Boston: Gregg Press, 1972.
Journal Article
Procknow, Eugene. General Israel Putnam – Reputation Revisited, Journal of the American Revolution, August 11, 2016.
Web Sites
General Israel Putnam Website maintained by Biographer Robert Hubbard
https://sites.google.com/site/generalisraelputnamwebsite/
Folklore
Story recounted in William Livington’s biography of Putnam in which he purportively fights a duel with a British officer with a barrel of gunpowder. In the end, the British officer blinks first and Putnam reveals that it was just a barrel of onions!
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