Women played a very important role in the American Revolution. For example, some were nurses. Although nurses were not used much, they became more important in 1777. The book “The Revolutionary War” by Charles Patrick Neimeyer says that many nurses were daughters and mothers of the male soldiers that fought. The book states; “In early 1777, Washington asked his commanding officers to ‘assist Regimental Surgeons in procuring as many Women of the Army (camp followers) as can be prevailed on to serve as Nurses to them who will be paid the usual price.” Some other roles that women played were seamstresses, cooks, and maids. These were the most common positions a woman would have, as most of them stayed home and did these things anyway. Some women were even soldiers. Women were not aloud in the military at the time, but some were still secret soldiers. They would give themselves masculine names and present themselves as male in order to be accepted into the army. There were a lot of important women in the revolution, but Nancy Hart is the woman who will be focused on.…show more content… In the early 1770s, Nancy and her family left and eventually settled in Broad River valley in Georgia. A lot of specific details about her life are unknown, but there are some stories and important facts about her that have been discovered over the years. Nancy was closely related to many early historical figures. She was a cousin of a Revolutionary War general, Daniel Morgan, who commanded American forces at the Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina on January 17, 1781. Her husband, Benjamin Hart, was from a distinguished family that made famous political figures such as Missouri senator Thomas Hart Benton and Kentucky senator Henry
