Despite their low positions society, women did participate. 4 points On the home front, they sewed uniforms and knitted stockings for soldiers. With their husbands away fighting, some women had to take over as weavers, carpenters, blacksmiths, or shipbuilders. Others transformed their homes into hospitals for the wounded. Both man and women fought on the battlefield. Hundreds of women served as nurses, laundresses, cooks ... There were some that actually engaged in battle... Deborah Sampson put on men's clothing and called herself Robert Shirtliffe in order to enlist in the Army. "Robert Shirtliffe" fought courageously; "his" company defeated marauding Indians north of Ticonderoga. -Tina Ann Nguyen, "American Athena's: Women in the Revolution" How did Deborah Sampson manage to enlist as a solider in the army?*