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in our minds at this moment we can follow them on to the plains of Bunker Hill . . . On to Princeton and Brandywine. Then to Valley Fodge and suffer with them there as they leave their footprints of blood upon the snow. Molly Pitcher and Monmouth
Now the march is on to Monmouth C. H. and we remember how Washington made every effort to clear the women out of the army and to keep them from foJlowing from place to jdace- To do this he gave orders that none of them should be allowed to ride in the wagons’ . . . thinking that the blazing sun would discourage them . . . but he didn’t know women! For on a hot day in June 1778 a woman made Monmouth C. H. famous. During that terrible battle — of which history records—an artilleryman was shot at his post. His wife—Molly Pitcher—while bringing water to her husband from a spring—saw him fall and heard the commander ordey the machinery from the field. Quickly dropping the pail she ran to the cannon—seized the rammer—and with skill and courage . performed her husband’s duty! From that day on she was called “Major Molly" and Congress voted her a Sergeant's commission with half pay for life.
After this battle and the defeat of the English the war was practically over in the northern states. And the next battle ground was in South Carolina and Georgia. 'Nothing less than a George Washington and a Molly Pitcher could have inspired soldiers to fight as they did at the battle of Cowpens. Col. William A. Washington—in a personal combat in this battle, wounded JTarleton. Months afterward this British officer while conversing with a witty American woman, sneeringly said “That William Washington is very illiterate. I am told that he cannot write his name.” . . . “Ah Colonel” she replied, “You bear evidence that he can make his mrak.”
As for George Washington — and the part he played in this war—we believe that he saw the end of the war at its very beginning. For his very first moves indicated it. He impressed friend anti foe alike that he intended to center every effort on New York and there form his chief attack. In reality Virginia had always been his goal. His letters which were captured by the British were so misleading as to make it impossible for them to concentrate on any special place. And history tells us that Gen. Clinton remained in New York opposing
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