The first of these women warriors was Deborah Gannett of Massachusetts. She enlisted April, 1781, in a Massachusetts regiment commanded by Col. Henry Jackson under the assumed name of Robert Shurtleff, and served until November, 1783, as a private soldier, when she was honorably discharged.
Fought at Tarrytown.
She fought at Tarrytown, where she was wounded, and was in the ranks when Lord Cornwallis was captured. Her real identity was revealed after the war, and in 1838 congress passed a special bill for the relief of her heirs, awarding them a pension in which she was described as "Deborah Gannett, a soldier of the revolution."
The second woman was Albert D. J. Cashier, whose real name was Hodgers, but whose Christian name was never revealed. She enlisted as a private in Company G, Ninety-fifth Illinois Infantry, in August, 1865. At the time she joined she was nineteen, with blue eyes and auburn hair. She gave her occupation as a farmer and her residence at Belvidere, Ill.
She went through the entire campaign with the Ninety-fifth Illinois infantry, was in the engagements leading to the fall of Vicksburg, including a charge against the besieged city. She also participated in the Jackson and East Meridian raids, the Red River expeditions, capture of Fort De Russy, and the battles of Old River, Oloutierville, Mansurs and Yellow Bayou.
In Thickest of Fight.
In April, 1864, she was in the thickest of the fight of Guntown, Miss.,  Where the regiment lost heavily in killed, and wounded. Later she participated in the battle of Nashville and the pursuit of General Hood's defeated army, and was at Franklin, Columbia, Pulaski, Lawrenceburg and East Port. 