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Yamacraw Village in Savannah in Chatham County, Georgia — The American South (South Atlantic)
 

Major General Israel Putnam

1718 - 1790

 
 
Major General Israel Putnam Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mike Stroud, 2013
1. Major General Israel Putnam Marker
Inscription.
A Connecticut farmer turned
soldier in the French and Indian
War, his service included Roger's
Rangers, Indian captivity,
shipwreck and Pontiac's War. A
staunch "Liberty Boy," he was to
lead men on many Revolutionary
battlefields, most notably Bunker
Hill. A paralyzing stroke ended his
military service in 1779.

 
Erected by Stone placed by Bonnie Ballard.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, US Revolutionary. A significant historical year for this entry is 1779.
 
Location. 32° 4.553′ N, 81° 6.038′ W. Memorial is in Savannah, Georgia, in Chatham County. It is in Yamacraw Village. It can be reached from Martin Luther King Boulevard (West Broad Street). Located between Louisville Road. W. Harris Street (Between Savannah Visitor Center and Savannah Roundhouse Museum, in the Battlefield Memorial Park). Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Savannah GA 31401, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the Coastal Plain and on the Georgia Coast and the Golden Isles. It is also in the American South and specifically in the Deep South. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Peter Tondee (here, next to this marker); To Honor Our Patriot Ancestors (here, next to this marker); Col. John White (here, next to this marker); Samuel Elbert (here, next to this marker); Mills Murphree
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(here, next to this marker); Colonel Mordecai Sheftall (here, next to this marker); Isidore De Lynch (here, next to this marker); Captain Charles Floyd (here, next to this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Savannah.
 
Also see . . .  General Israel Putnam Website. "...Putnam was all activity, riding up and down just behind the soldiers at the fence who rested their deadly weapons on the top rail and awaited with excited eagerness the order to fire. ..." (Submitted on April 7, 2013, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.) 
 
Major General Israel Putnam image. Click for full size.
Prints and Photographs Division Connecticut History. org, 1864 Lithograph - Library of Congress
2. Major General Israel Putnam
Major General Israel Putnam Marker at the Memorial To The American Revolution image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mike Stroud, 2013
3. Major General Israel Putnam Marker at the Memorial To The American Revolution
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on February 8, 2023. It was originally submitted on April 7, 2013, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina. This page has been viewed 672 times since then and 18 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3. submitted on April 7, 2013, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
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Jun. 21, 2026