2-716-782 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'General Israel Putnam, showing uniform of a Continental trooper', 1937. Israel Putnam (1718-1790) American army general officer, known as Old Put, who fought with distinction at the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775) during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). From "History of American Costume - Book One 1607-1800", by Elisabeth McClellan. [Tudor Publishing Company, New York, 1937]