Hearing the enemy close to their heels, they made a tack and luckily escaped safe to our party." "How he escaped a wound is passing strange," says one of Putnam's biographers [Mr.J.T.

Headley]; "but he was one of those men who seem eternally seeking death without being able to find it.

There are some persons in the world who appear to bear a charmed life, which no amount of daring or exposure can endanger.

Foremost in the charge, and the last to retreat, they are never found with the dead.

Fate seems to delight to place them in the most desperate straits, on purpose to make their deliverance appear the more miraculous.