She continues to help the soldiers gather straw and take it into the loft where they sleep. The soldiers began to think that this was unusual; she later explained that this would keep them warm they helped her. The soldiers more or less helped dig their own graves without even knowing it. After dinner she sat by the fire to warm herself and the soldiers climbed up into the loft to go to sleep. ... The Revolutionary War had been fought so that they could win their freedom from tyranny, but women had yet to be free. ...

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MY LIFE STORY By Margaret Christia Newberry Herbert My Mother, Margaret Lular Bass Newberry, told me this following things as I grew up. I asked her questions about my grandmother, as I never saw any of my grandparents. My grandfather John Bass, was the overseer of a large plantation in South...

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