Harriet Tubman
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in 1862
in South Carolina
‘Five generations on Smiths Plantation’ Beaufort in At the time played a critical role in Beaufort the following year led a daring raid with 150 African American Union soldiers that rescued over 700 enslaved people along the Combahee River
in 1868
Harriet Tubman Leading successful raids into and out of enemy territory thereby saving people is pretty cool
in 1871
in U.S.
the first woman to lead a military operation during war was posthumously promoted to brigadier general on Veterans Day photograph
in 1887
in New York City
More details Tubman in 1887 (far left), with her husband Davis (seated, with cane), their adopted daughter Gertie (beside Tubman), Lee Cheney, John Pop Alexander, Walter Green, Blind Aunty Sarah Parker, and great-niece, Dora Stewart at Tubmans home in Auburn, New York
in 1911
in New York
Harriet Tubman in two years before her death at the Auburn New York old aged home named for her