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From tho Now (I i. v..'.# on tht billboard* aroundthe city an advertisement of “theWOMAN ftr»t American woman soldier/* Ihave been Informed that one MollyPitcher fought at the battle of Mon-mouth, N. J.( in the Revolutionarywar, taking the place of her husband,who was killed In that battle.—Letter In Yesterday's Times.)Captain Molly wasn’t the only one. We must not forget Nancy Hart of Georgia, gun in hand, driving her ten Tory prisoners into the American camp. But Nancy, prodigious fighter as she wsfc, was not technically a soldier, whereas Captain Molly was made a sergeant on the Monmouth battlefield and subsequently put on the list of half-pay officers for life by act of congress. She had the right to wear the uniform, and compromised by wearing an artilleryman’s coat over her dress and a cocked hat on her red hair. But Deborah Sampson ofMassachusetts was the real woman soldier of the Revolution; she enlisted in the Continental army, her sex being unsuspected, fought In battde after battle, was wounded, was com-
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Lincoln Sunday Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sun, May 26, 1918
Page 20
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PA, USA 09 Sep 2018
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