soldier you got the pension so pretty cool story. >> glenn: she was commissioned by washington. >> she was commissioned because she got the name -- mary is her name. molly is the nickname in the battle of 1778, june, really, really hot day and if you're part of the artillery crew with all of that powder going off and the heat and everything. and so guys were falling from exhaustion, she was running back and forth between the creek and the well carrying pitchers of water for them to keep rehydrated, that's how she got the name molly pitcher. when her husband fainted from exhaustion, she kept the gun firing and did so throughout the rest of the battle. in the end, they found out what she had done. she kept the gun alive. you have to have the rammer and the cleaner, the one that puts the powder -- the guy that fires it, names it. she kept that gun going throughout the battle and at the end she was commissioned as a sergeant in the continental army. now, washington, we think, it may have been general nathaniel green. it was a general that commissioned her.