Deborah Samson

Deborah Samson was a indentured servant for seven years. She wanted to be a soldier in the army. She had gotten her independence when she was a young woman. She thought and thought and decided she was going to disguise as a man for the army. She spent her time making a mans suit so she could go to the army when she completed the suit she dressed up and walked forty miles just to sign up for the army. When she got there on her form she changed her name to Robert Shirtniff she had thought of that name from a brother that  had long passed away or died. She tricked the army because the army believed she was a teenaged boy because of the muscles she had gained working on the farm while she was an indentured servant. The army gave her “him” the assignment that she needed to complete. When she was in war she had gotten hit and her identity could have been discovered and she didn’t  want that she told her friends that she wanted her pistol and she wanted to rest in peace. Her friends decided  to carry her to the field hospital and now they will find her secret out………..

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