Step back to time to meet Deborah Sampson, the first female American professional soldier, at this FREE Chautauqua History Comes Alive show, performed by Judith Kalaora from Boston Founder and Artistic Director of “History At Play.”
January 17, 1781 as Daniel Morgan trounced Bloody Banastre Tarleton at the Battle of Cowpens, a young self-educated schoolmarm in Massachusetts felt a higher calling – to serve in “A Revolution of her Own!” On May 23, 1782, wearing an old soldier’s uniform, Deborah Sampson bound her chest, tied back her hair, and enlisted in the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment of the Continental Army, under the alias “Robert Shurtlieff.”
Experience Deborah Sampson’s arduous upbringing, one and a half years of active combat and success as the first female American professional soldier as Spartanburg celebrates the turning point in the American reconquest of South Carolina – the Battle of Cowpens. It’s Revolutionary!
Free show and Free parking