Periodical Index Detail
Trend & Tradition
Title | 'Fighting as a Common Soldier' - Anna Maria Lane |
Issue | Volume 02, Number 02 (T&T, Spring 2017) |
Description | Mystery surrounds the Revolutionary career of Anna Maria Lane who in 1808 was granted an usually generous pension because she was "in the revolutionary war, in the garb, and with the courage of a soldier [and] performed extraordinary military services, and received a severe wound at the battle of Germantown". Other women who were called to battle include Margaret Corbin, Tyonajanegen (an Oneida Indian), Deborah Sampson, Ann Hennis Trotter Bailey and Sally St. Clair. |
Author | Aron, Paul |
Pages | 86-8 |