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Article: WEB SITES KEEP TRACK OF AMERICAN HEROINES.(Lifestyle)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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``The bravest battle that was ever fought. Shall I tell you where or when? On the maps of the world you will find it not, 'Twas fought by the mothers of men.'' - Joaquin Miller (1837-1913)
What is believed to be the first statue ever erected to an American heroine was dedicated in honor of Kerenhappuch Norman Turner on July 4, 1902, in the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park in Greensboro, N.C.
During the Revolutionary War at the battle there in 1781 her grandson, James Turner Smith, received serious wounds. She rode to the scene of the fighting and successfully nursed his wounds and those of other soldiers for many weeks. She is credited with ...