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100 1 $aYoung, Alfred F.,$d1925-2012.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80015707
245 10 $aMasquerade :$bthe life and times of Deborah Sampson, Continental soldier /$cAlfred F. Young.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf :$bDistributed by Random House,$c2004.
300 $ax, 417 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 322-394) and index.
520 1 $a"The remarkable story of the woman who fought in the American Revolution as Robert Shurtliff - and got away with it." "Serving for seventeen months during the period between the British surrender at Yorktown and the signing of the final treaty, a time when peace was far from secure, Deborah Sampson accomplished her deception by becoming an outstanding soldier. Alfred Young shows us why she did it and exactly how she carried it off. He meticulously reconstructs her early life as an indentured servant; her young adulthood as a weaver, teacher, and religious rebel; and her military career in the light infantry - consisting of dangerous patrols and small-party encounters, duty that demanded constant vigilance - followed by service as an orderly to a general at West Point." "Young also examines her postwar life as a wife - Mrs. Benjamin Gannett - and mother on a hardscrabble farm in southeastern Massachusetts, her collaboration with Herman Mann on the book that made her a celebrity and sent her on a pathbreaking yearlong lecture tour through New England and New York in 1802-03, and her relentless and partially successful quest for veteran's benefits. He looks, too, at how Americans have dealt with Sampson in public memory and have appropriated her for a number of causes over the past two hundred years."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aGannett, Deborah Sampson,$d1760-1827.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50017563
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783$xParticipation, Female.
650 0 $aWomen soldiers$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010119199
650 0 $aSoldiers$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111156
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