A 'Gallantress' Gets Her Due: The Earliest Published Notice of Deborah Sampson.

Sampson was the first transvestite to serve in the American army who became prominent by doing so. An "infantryman" with a Massachusetts regiment from 1781 to 1783, she later married a Massachusetts farmer and raised a family. Outlines the growth of her reputation and reprints a 1784 account of her career.