CHAPTER XVIII
THE DISABLED VETERAN
General Putnam was sixty-one years old at the time of his famous exploit
at Horseneck, and apparently in the full possession of his powers; but,
as it eventuated, this was the beginning of his last campaign, which
actually opened with the removal of the soldiers from Redding to the
Hudson, about the last of May, where Putnam was appointed to the command
of the right wing of the army, with headquarters on the west bank of the
river. Previous to removal, he wrote the following interesting letter to
a friend, Colonel Wadsworth, of Hartford, which the author of this
memoir copied from the original in possession of the Connecticut
Historical Society:
Redding, _ye 11 of May, 1779_.
Dear Sir: On my arrivol to this plas I could hear nothing
of my hard mony and so must conclud it is gon to the dogs we have
no nus hear from head Quarters not a lin senc I cam hear and what
my destination is to be this summer cant even so much as geuss but
shuld be much obbliged to you if you would be so good as to send me
by the teems the Lym juice you was so good as to offer me and a par
of Shoes I left under the chamber tabel.
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