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| "Captain Molly" |
Margaret Cochran Corbin
Margaret Corbin followed her husband into war originally as a camp follower.
Camp followers prepared meals for the men, laundered clothes, and acted as nurses.
When her husband was shot down, Margaret continued to load his cannon and fire at the British.
She was wounded that day, and ultimately became the first woman to receive lifetime disability pension of half pay from the government.
She is buried with full military honors at the cemetery of the United States Military Academy at West Point behind the Old Cadet Chapel.
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