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Chapter 3 Section 4
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Deborah Sampson Gannett
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(1760-1827) disguised herself as
a man to fight in the Revolutionary War in the 4th
Massachusetts Regiment under the name of Robert
Shurtleff. She fought for a year, and was wounded
twice. When she was hospitalized for a serious illness
her secret was discovered. She collected veterans'
benefits after her discharge and her husband was
given a survivor's pension after her death.
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Margaret Cochran Corbin fought alongside her husband in the American Revolutionary War and was the first woman to receive pension from the United States government as a disabled soldier. She was born Nov. 12, 1751 near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., orphaned at the age of five and was
raised by relatives. When she was twenty-one she married John Corbin. John joined the Continental Army when the American Revolution started four years later and Margaret accompanied her husband. Wives of the soldiers often cooked for the men, washed their laundry and nursed wounded soldiers. They also watched the men do their drills and, no doubt, learned those drills, too.
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Margaret Cochran Corbin
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Molly Pitcher
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An Artillery wife, Mary Hays McCauly (better known as Molly Pitcher)
shared the rigors of Valley Forge with her husband, William Hays. Her actions
during the battle of Monmouth on June 28, 1778 became legendary. That day
at Monmouth was as hot as Valley Forge was cold. Someone had to cool the
hot guns and bathe parched throats with water.
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