| James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902. | | | | June 28 | | Mollie Pitcher | | By Kate Brownlee Sherwood (1841–1914) |
| | | | A victory gained near Freehold, N.J., on June 28, 1878, by the Americans under Washington over the British under Clinton. |
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’TWAS hurry and scurry at Monmouth town | |
| For Lee was beating a wild retreat; | |
| The British were riding the Yankees down, | |
| And panic was pressing on flying feet. | |
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| Galloping down like a hurricane | 5 |
| Washington rode with his sword swung high, | |
| Mighty as he of the Trojan plain | |
| Fired by a courage from the sky. | |
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| “Halt, and stand to your guns!” he cried. | |
| And a bombardier made swift reply. | 10 |
| Wheeling his cannon into the tide; | |
| He fell ’neath the shot of a foeman nigh. | |
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| Mollie Pitcher sprang to his side, | |
| Fired as she saw her husband do. | |
| Telling the king in his stubborn pride | 15 |
| Women like men to their homes are true. | |
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| Washington rode from the bloody fray | |
| Up to the gun that a woman manned. | |
| “Mollie Pitcher, you save the day,” | |
| He said, as he gave her a hero’s hand. | 20 |
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| He named her sergeant with manly praise, | |
| While her war-brown face was wet with tears— | |
| A woman has ever a woman’s ways, | |
| And the army was wild with cheers. | | | |
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