Sarah Benjamin stood before the deposition on the twentieth day of November, 1837, in the Court of Common Pleas of Wayne County, Pennsylvania. This deposition was intended to validate claims for retirement benefits owed to Mrs. Benjamin from a previous marriage; one Aaron Osborn, Revolutionary War veteran. His case rested on the numerous acts of Congress of the previous decade - notably the Comprehensive Pension Act of 1832 and the subsequent acts of Congress of July 4, 1836 and March 3, 1837 - which for the first time allowed annual grants to all who service in the Continental Army for a period of six months or more. These acts supplanted Sarah Benjamin's case because petitioners no longer required disability or monetary status for approval, as well as allowing widows married at the time of the war to be entitled to full payments1. While the history of Revolutionary War pensions is quite rich and intriguing, what is most enriching throughout the study of this document is the incredibly vivid and accurate account of life in the Continental Army camps by Mrs. Benjamin, known during this time as Sarah Osborn. of time and from now on in this study-deposes. Through the study of this document, with the help of works that tell and tell the meaning of other women involved in the Revolution, this work will attempt to present a full and complete picture of life in wartime. Not only is Sarah Osborn's deposition a wonderfully personal and astonishingly accurate story, but it remains one of the best-known accounts of a woman living with soldiers in the camps. The efforts he made to help keep them fed, clean, organized and together amaze as acts of remarkable courage and devotion. Sa...... half of the newspaper ......ity of the Chicago Press, 1980. Ellet, E.F., and Lincoln Diamant. Revolutionary Women in the War for American Independence: A One-Volume Revised Edition of Elizabeth Ellet's 1848 Landmark Series. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998. Engle, Paul. Women in the American Revolution. Chicago: Follett, 1976. Gundersen, Joan R.. To Be Useful to the World: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790. Rev. ed. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Lewis, January. "Women and the American Revolution." OAH History Journal, Summer 1994, 23-26. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25162982 (accessed February 20, 2011). Waska, Frank E. “Mrs. Patience Lovell Wright. A famous wax modeller. Brush and pencil 2, n. 6 (September 1898): 249-52.Young, Alfred Fabian. Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier. New York: Alfred A. Knopf :, 2004.