While we revel in broadcloth, let us not forget what we owe to linsey-woolsey.
With other detachments from various quarters, Israel's regiment remained encamped for several days in the vicinity of Charlestown.

On the seventeenth of June, one thousand Americans, including the regiment of Patterson, were set about fortifying Bunker's Hill.

Working all through the night, by dawn of the following day, the redoubt was thrown up.

But every one knows all about the battle.

Suffice it, that Israel was one of those marksmen whom Putnam harangued as touching the enemy's eyes.
Forbearing as he was with his oppressive father and unfaithful love, and mild as he was on the farm, Israel was not the same at Bunker Hill.
Putnam had enjoined the men to aim at the officers; so Israel aimed between the golden epaulettes, as, in the wilderness, he had aimed between the branching antlers.