The Civil War was raging and the vessels were filled ... already famed for her bold excursions into hostile territory: Harriet Tubman. Born into slavery, Tubman had liberated herself in 1849 ...

An escaped slave who became one of the best-known "conductors" on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman led over 300 slaves to freedom in the decade before the war. The Maryland native began ...

Harriet Tubman was barely ... should take me alive.” Though Tubman is most famous for her successes along the Underground ...

Despite her years of service, Harriet Tubman never received a salary and was for years denied compensation. She did not receive a pension for her service in the Civil War until 1899, and she and ...

A measure to replace President Andrew Jackson with abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill is ... She was also a nurse and Union spy during the Civil War — becoming the first woman to ...

During the Civil War Harriet Tubman worked for the Union as a cook, a nurse, and even a spy. After the war she settled in Auburn, New York, where she would spend the rest of her long life.