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Jun 4, 2020 · The receipted bills Washington kept of his spending during the Revolutionary War, in Series 5, Volume 29, are the focus of our latest crowdsourcing project, “Ordinary Lives in George Washington’s Papers: The Revolutionary War.” I would like to introduce you to one group of women you will meet as you work your way through these receipts.
6. “From George Washington to Henry Knox, 8 March 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives. Camp followers in the Continental Army served a critical role in the day-to-day functions of the American revolutionary cause. By the winter of 1777, around two thousand women marched with American troops and worked as seamstresses, nurses, and cooks.
In total, Martha and George Washington spent between 52 to 54 of the roughly 103 months of the war either together or with each other nearby. When traveling to meet her husband for each of the eight years of the war, Martha Washington had to overcome a number of obstacles, including fears for her own safety. Particularly during the summer and ...
Big Idea 4: A Women's War. The Revolutionary War affected the lives of women in many ways. Leading up to the war, women participated in boycotts and protests. During the war, women continued to help the war effort in important ways, such as maintaining their homes and communities, making military supplies, following the army, and even fighting ...
Jul 2, 2019 · July 2, 2019. P HILADELPHIA — Hers has always been one of the more astonishing, if little-known, tales of the American Revolution: a woman who stitched herself a uniform, posed as a man and ...
We are often left to perceive Washington as an old man wizened by war and the brushstrokes of nationalism; seldom as he was in youth – excitable, robust, athletic, and much charmed by women. Washington devotees rightfully want to keep the General unsullied and untainted by scandal and the impropriety of addressing such romantic insinuations ...
George Washington lived in an age of revolutions, during which he faced political upheaval, war, economic change, and social shifts. These revolutions affected American women in profound ways, and the women Washington knew—personally, professionally, and politically—lived lives that reveal these multifaceted transformations.
