Molly Pitcher - Mary Ludwig Hays

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dc.creatorBeards, Daniel E.
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-29T15:17:45Z
dc.date.available2024-07-29T15:17:45Z
dc.date.issued2007-06-25
dc.descriptionAn Artillery wife, Mary Hays McCauly (better known as Molly Pitcher) shared the rigors of the battle of Monmouth. Across that bullet-swept ground, a striped skirt fluttered. Mary Hays McCauly was earning her nickname "Molly Pitcher" by bringing pitcher after pitcher of cool spring water to the exhausted and thirsty men. She also tended to the wounded and once, heaving a crippled continental soldier up on her strong young back, carried him out of reach of hard� charging Britishers. On her next trip with water she found her artilleryman husband back with the guns again, replacing a casualty. While she watched, Hays fell wounded. The piece, its crew too depleted to serve it, was about to be withdrawn. Without hesitation, Molly stepped forward and took the rammer staff from her fallen husband's hands. Resolutely, she stayed at her post in the face of heavy enemy fire, ably acting as a matross (gunner).
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dc.subjectMolly Pitcher
dc.subjectMary Ludwig Hayes
dc.subjectWomen in the American Revolution
dc.subjectBattle of Monmouth
dc.subjectThe American Revolution
dc.subjectAmerican History
dc.subjectUS History
dc.subjectGeorge Washington
dc.subjectContinental Army
dc.subjectWinter Encampment
dc.subjectHistory
dc.subjectMorristown
dc.subjectThe Ford Mansion
dc.subjectMorris County
dc.subjectThe American Revolution in New Jersey
dc.subjectThe Skylands
dc.subjectLakeland
dc.subjectNew Jersey
dc.subjectNJ
dc.subjectJersey
dc.subjectThe Garden State
dc.titleMolly Pitcher - Mary Ludwig Hays

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